[Users] Claws's too intelligent for me... or am I too stupid ?

[wwp]

Hello ,


On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 18:21:00 +0100 Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン) <rol at witbe.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've been using Claws for quite a long time, and I've accumulated many many
> mails over years, which are organized in "Archives" folder, one per year.
> So, I have a "Archive xxxx" for every year since 2003, and every year, I
> create a new one.
> 
> Combine to that, I've created a set of processing rules on mails folders to
> move the mails to the "Archives" when it is more than one month old, to
> avoid having too many mails in my inboxes.
> 
> So, I have some :
> 
> age_greater 32
> move "#mh/Mailbox/Dossier archives/Archives/Boite de reception"
> 
> and every year, I rename "Archives" to "Archives 2012", and I create a new
> "Archives" for the coming year.
> 
> But claws does detect that I rename a folder used by processing rules...
> And it then does update my processing rules, which ends up being :
> 
> age_greater 32
> move "#mh/Mailbox/Dossier archives/Archives 2012/Boite de reception"
> 
> and I end up re-editing all my processing rules...
> 
> I'm not asking for that clever behavior to change... but has anyone faced
> that and how was it "solved/worked-around" ?
> Is there a way to use some magic "%Y" to have for example :
> 
> age_greater 32
> move "#mh/Mailbox/Dossier archives/Archives %Y/Boite de reception"
> 
> and have %Y automagically evaluated to the current year ?

Eheh when you rename a folder, all processing/filtering rules know it
and they automatically adapt themselves to point to the renamed folder.

What you want is possible, just don't use rename, but move the emails
using something like:
- keep your "Archive" folder, where all processing rules send "old"
  emails,
- every new year (for instance), create folder "Archive NNNN"
- move all emails from Archive to "Archive NNNN" (enter folder, select
  all, move to..)
- et voila.


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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