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 ... > > 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
Patrick, Thanks for the detailed answer. So it looks like if I really want this functionality, I should create a script that does it off line with IMAP copy and moves. Ugh! At least I know why evolution does not support it. -- "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it connected to the entire universe" John Muir Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, kacoro...@gmail.com, 206-501-9803 or ski98033 on most IM services _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
