749803 - deleting expired articles does not work any more

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 727951

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Olaf]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko)  Iron/17.0.1000.2 Chrome/17.0.1000.2 Safari/535.11

Steps to reproduce:

I clicked on the link below this message:

Fehler!
Antwort des Newsgruppen-Servers:Bad article number

Eventuell ist der Beitrag abgelaufen

<iok6do$ffq$[e-mail]> (7163)

Hier klicken, um alle abgelaufenen Beiträge zu löschen 


Actual results:

nothing


Expected results:

the same as in older TB versions: expired articles should be removed at least when clicking on the list-ids link.

I reported this bug before, but Bugzilla cannot find it anymore.

Comment 1

[Olaf]

BTW, it would be much more user friendly when TB would delete expired messages automatically. For now, I have to do this cleanup task every now and then. Very annoying, but now even that does not work.

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

This will be fixed in version 13.

(In reply to Olaf from comment #1)
> BTW, it would be much more user friendly when TB would delete expired
> messages automatically. For now, I have to do this cleanup task every now
> and then. Very annoying, but now even that does not work.

There is already an option to automatically delete messages after a certain period of time has elapsed (the retention time).