On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 07:46, David Williams wrote: > On Saturday 04 January 2003 01:19 pm, Michael Adams wrote: > > On Sun, 05 Jan 2003 01:35, Derek 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 > > > > > > Just right click on the mail folder and select 'expire old messages' > > > You can then set up how long messages remain in each folder. > > > > > > derek > > > > Sorry Derek, Right clicking only brings up "compact" and "empty" as > > choices.
> In Settings->Configure Kmail->Miscellaneous, there is a check off box to > expire old messages when closing. Nope, not in my version. I am beginning to wonder if Dolphin is the order of the day, but on the whole this box aint broken so i am reluctant to fix it over one issue. > The right click on a folder and set the > > old > message age to whatever you want. When you close Kmail it will delete the > messages that meet that criteria. That's exactly what i was after. But it is not an option. > OR > Under Settings->Configure Filters, you can define a filter in (age in days) > (equals) (some number). > You can then periodically apply the filter manually on a particular folder. Tried that, i had it after my <newbie> filter and all the newbie e-mails i had sent got filtered into <newbie>. My guess is if i had it before the newbie filter then any older than XX days would be moved to trash where i want it but any newer would be moved to newbie. Either way it doesn't cut the mustard. Sorry folks, just looks like a no-go on 8.2. I can do it manually with a sort by date - highlight the oldest - move to the most recent i want to kill - shift highlight all those between and tap Delete. This seems the best option at present. > David -- Michael
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