Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 14 April 2007, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Anne Wilson wrote: >>> What I'd like to see on gmail is the ability to set an expiry rate - >>> delete everything older than 6 months. It's a real pain trying to do >>> this by hand when you subscribe to several lists. It's thousands to go, >>> and you can only do it one page at a time. Grrr... >> If you use thunderbird and pop3 with gmail you can use the check box for >> "leave mail on server" and specify how many days. Then tbird will do the >> delete on the server for you. I suspect evilution has the similar >> settings. > > I don't think it's possible to do such a thing with fetchmail. Don't know. I don't use fetchmail... But, looking at the "man fetchmail" I see thing like -k and -F that maybe useful.