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Suggestion: allow configuring an auto-delete after X days and auto-archival after X days per folder

k234525 shared this idea 8 months ago
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I want to suggest to allow configuring an auto-delete after X days and auto-archival after X days per folder. A good use case are high frequency mailing lists, where for storage reasons alone it may not make much sense to store them for longer than 4-6 weeks. Another one might be monitoring mails.

There currently seems to be a per-folder auto-archival after a fixed 90 days, but 1. this doesn't seem to allow instantly permanently deleting the e-mail to free the storage, and 2. it doesn't allow entering a custom amount of days.

Thunderbird and other mail clients already have this feature, but many mobile clients don't, also some people use the web UI exclusively.

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Like this idea! I was just looking to see if I could apply auto-delete after 30 days with the filter rules but don't see that is possible.

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I would like this feature, I move all offers and advertisements to a special folder and would like that to delete after 30 days. I would take it a step folder and like to set up rules to also read the inbox and add a second condition to move an email after x days to another folder. For example: I would use this to move notices of Amazon shipments to the trash after one week.

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