On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 8:57 am, _nasturtium wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 04 Jan 2003 9:55 am, Michael Adams wrote: > > > I was trying to set up a filter on my sent-mail folder to delete > > > anything that has been there for 2 months or more. I can't quite see > > > how to do it as filters only seem to be applied to incoming or outgoing > > > mail not dates in folders. > > > > > > Any sugestions or am i blowing smoke. > > > > > > kmail 1.3.2 > > > Mandrake distro 8.2 > > > > Mine is KMail 1.4.3, so YMMV. There is 'age in days' as a filter choice. > > > > Related questions - I have set this on sent mail but it does not run > > automatically when mail comes in/goes out. I do wonder if 'sent mail' > > filters only run on mail at the time of sending? > > > > There is a check box for manual filtering, but I can't see how to apply > > manual filtering. Anybody got this working? > > > > Anne > > Hello, > I'm using KMail 1.4.3. What I do for some folders is right-click on them, > select Properties, then choose "expire messages". There's a few options, > you can choose whether to expire only read or unread messages after x days. > In this context, expiring messages means deleting them. So you can set to > expire messages in sent mail after 60 days as such.
Tried that, but it didn't do anything. > I'm guessing manual filtering is when you apply filters to specific > messages by using Message->Apply Filters (or Ctrl-J). That seems a sledgehammer to crack a nut. It seems just as easy to highlight the message(s), > move to > etc... or delete. Anne
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