Greetings, On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 11:58 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 19:56 -0800, Ski Kacoroski wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way to set up automated expunging to expunge all deleted > > emails that are older than 1 month, 2 months, etc. instead of having it > > expunge all deleted emails once a week, once a month, etc. Usually > > after an email has been deleted for a month, I no longer need it, but > > now if I set up auto expunge each month, when it runs it expunges all > > deleted emails regardless of when they were deleted. > > Short answer: not easily. > > Longer answer: there are two issues here. Firstly, Evo has no mechanism > for time-based triggers so in any case you'd have to do it via a script > outside of Evo. However this could be done in principle. Perhaps it > could also be done with a plugin, I'm not sure. > > More importantly, IMAP Expunge works on an entire folder (or 'mailbox' > in IMAP terminology) at a time. You can't expunge an individual message. > Thus you can't select what to zap and what to leave based only on their > ages. You'd need to sort candidate messages into some special > 'death-row' folder and then expunge that. However that actually make the > problem worse, given that IMAP has no 'move' operation. It would have to > copy the message and then delete the original. But that leaves us back > where we started ...
Actually, I would do it the other way. Move the younger ones to "holding" and then, as they age, mark them for deletion. I'd probably do it in a coarse grained way. On, say, Sunday night, first, mark everything in the 4-week-old folder as trash, do an expunge, then move everything in the 3-week-old folder to the 4-week old folder, everything in the 2-week-old folder to the 3-week-old folder, everything in the 1-week-old folder to the 2-week-old folder, and everything in the current-old folder to the 1-week-old folder, and then do another expunge. Also, I'd pin my "trash" to the current-old folder (so when you "delete" a message, it moves it to the current-old folder. as opposed to simply marking it as trash). This would (of course) be made easier if there was some way to make a button that would move things to specific folders, as opposed to simply opening up the move dialog box. Just another suggestion. -dkap _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
