[CS-FSLUG] Sponsoring a Feature Addition for Evolution
Stephen J. McCracken
smccracken at hcjb.org.ec
Sat May 13 19:57:23 CDT 2006
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
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