Re: Only download emails older than x days
Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
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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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Cazabon GPL'ed software available at: http://pyropus.ca/software/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------