I found that, but the "Age In Days" option is only available for local folders. It doesn't even show up in the filters dialog on the non-local folders, (on the company exchange server accessed via imap) I've thought about moving all emails to my local machine as soon as they arrive, maybe even going to POP, but I would like to keep emails on the server for some period of time as they are easily accessed when traveling. What I would ideally like, is to leave the emails on the company server, for 6 weeks and then have them automatically moved to my local machine. This becomes critical because company policy it to delete all emails from the server after 90 days. The only method I have found so far with Thunderbird is to manually create a filter to move all emails before a given date (this is an absolute date, not relative, ie Feb 2, 2005 not 28 days ago), run the filter, and then delete it. Because I sort my email into multiple folders as it arrives, I would have to repeat this process for each of the 6 or so folders. As horrible as outlook is, this one task is trivially easy to setup and seems to work wonderfully with it.
dave On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:03:40 -0700, Jared Lundell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dave wrote: > > >All, > > Does anyone know how to setup auto-archive in Thunderbird? i.e. > >automatically move all emails older the 3 months from my inbox to my > >archive folder. I've been searching for awhile now without success. > >Unfortunately, this is the one feature that may force me back to > >Outlook... (YUCK) > > > >dave > > > > > > > Thunderbird's message filters should already do this for you. Create a > new filter on "Age in Days"->"is greater than"->x and set it to move to > your archive folder. It may not be totally automatic, but all you'll > have to do is select "run filters on folder" from the tools menu. The > ignominy of switching back to Outlook should be worth one click every > week or so. :) > > Jared > -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
