Re: Only download emails older than x days

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
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Mauricio Tavares <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
>       My use case is to keep only somewhat recent emails (say within
> the last year) in gmail and archive the rest. This way I do not keep a
> ton of emails there.

Okay...

> > However, it does have a feature to download mail immediately but only delete
> > it from the server after a period of time -- see the delete_after option.
> > That's probably what you actually want.
> >
>       If I was starting afresh it would make sense. Right now I have
> years of emails I would rather pull down and later on go through them
> and delete the ones I do not want (as if that is going to happen ;) ).

I'm not sure I follow.  The use case you describe above is exactly what
delete_after is designed to support.  Have you looked into this?

Charles
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