[Evolution-users] Mails :: Automatic expunge of local Trash folder

[Matthias Kuntze]

On Thu, 2025-07-31 at 11:45 +0200, Milan Crha via evolution-users
wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-07-31 at 11:09 +0200, Matthias Kuntze wrote:
> > For these trash folders I can define within "Properties" ->
> > "Archive"
> > a auto-cleanup period an the "Delete messages" action.

Dear Milan,
thank you for these interesting informations.
	
> There is File->Empty Trash which expunges all the Trash folders, but
really expunges, it removes everything from them all.
That is something that I do not want.

> In Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences->General tab ...
This hint led me to the following thought:
I create a local "Archive" folder and define it with Edit->Preferences-
>Mail Preferences->General->Archive Mail as the "On This Computer
Archive folder". Instead of using the "Del" key, I press "Archive"
(Ctrl-Alt-A) to send a mail to the "Archive" folder. There I define in
the properties to auto-cleanup/delete the messages after a specific
time interval. These mails were then seen as deleted in the virtual
trash folder.

As these deleted mails from the "Archive" folder are marked with a "T"
in the filename, I could start for the flatpak installation a cron job
(or systemd.timer) to do a

* find ~/.var/app/org.gnome.Evolution/data/evolution/\
mail/local/.Archive/ -name "*,*T" -delete

Ok, that does not fit to the GUI capabilities of Evolution but is
working. Are there concerns to better avoid that way?

Thanks for your answer,
Matthias
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