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 ... I think MUAs that allow this do it by not following the IMAP deletion model i.e. they support a physical Trash folder rather than Evo's virtual Trash. That would make it possible, but at the cost of a fairly radical change to Evo and a loss of efficiency at the server end. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
