[CS-FSLUG] Sponsoring a Feature Addition for Evolution

[Stephen J. McCracken]

Don Parris wrote:
> I wanted our ministry to put our money where our mouth is on free
> software.  To that end, we sought out - and have - an Evolution
> programmer willing to add a minor feature for a nominal fee.
> 
> Evolution currently lacks the ability to delete messages from a POP
> server after a user-specified number of days.  It either deletes them
> or doesn't delete them; you can't make it wait a few days before
> deleting them.  This feature is supported in other applications, but
> I/we use Evolution mostly, and having this feature would be so much
> easier than using another program or two or three to accomplish our
> tasks.  Rather than submit a bug report/feature request in the usual
> manner, we thought we would get it implemented the old-fahsioned
> Capitalist way.

I would suggest that at the same time, you add in a similar feature to
give it both options that Thunderbird has.  It not only has a user
settable day limit for deletion, but also a "delete when I delete or
move it from my Inbox" feature.  That is the one I have used more in the
past rather than a strict time delay approach.

sjm