On Saturday 14 April 2007, Ed Greshko wrote: > 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. I know I've used 'leave on server' before, but not anything that defines a time-limit. -k is 'keep' and -F flushes all previously retrieved messages. IOW, every time you collect your messages, if you always use -F you will delete the messages last downloaded. Not what I want to do. Anne
