297758 - Auto-Archive

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 93094

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[John Talbut]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0.2 (20050317)

An auto-archive facility similar to that in MS Outlook is urgently needed for
Thunderbird.  This is similar to issues 273326 and 278182, but not just for IMAP
mail.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Bob Lord]

Agreed.  The feature should redirect a copy of all incoming and all outgoing
mail to a specified archive folder.  This folder would usually live on the local
machine, but should work for IMAP folders as well.

Comment 2

[mozilla.org]

Definitely. This would be great.

Comment 3

[Greg Gladwell]

Archiving is a must have feature for practical use at work. With an IMAP account and many mail folders/lists things can be quite time consuming to manage effectively.

I would suggest that this is most sensibly implemented as an extra option within 'properties->retention policy' for each folder. So you would have something like 'archive messages more than 'X' days old to' and then have a folder selection drop box like in the filters section.

Comment 4

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of Core bug 93094 comment 3?

(In reply to comment #3)
> So you would have
> something like 'archive messages more than 'X' days old to' and then have a
> folder selection drop box like in the filters section.
 
Duplicate of bug 296262?

Comment 5

[Bob Lord]

A little background on my use case:  I often need to reference email sent to me, to a mailing list I'm subscribed to, and mail I've sent to others.  I like the way I can search all email on GMail.  This proposal to dump all my mail into a single folder would be my way of simulating that feature.  There are better ways of doing that, I'm sure, but I'm able to hack things together now.  It would like be nice to make it a real feature.

Note that in my case, Greg Gladwell's suggestion of modifying the retention policy would not work.  What I do is to go to my ARCHIVES folder and perform the search there.  I'm still happy to do that, but I'd rather flip a switch rather than having to set up several filters to do the job.

YMMV. ;-)

Comment 6

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

How is this not different from 93094? All the proposals there indicate that this feature would be included in that process.