Timo Sirainen wrote:
- Add a new field to index file which contains the date when the message was copied.
This is the best solution, to my mind, as it has the extreme benefit of doing what makes the most sense to the enduser. In other words, I receive a message today and move it to Trash immediately. My sysadmin has helpfully told me that messages older than 7 days will be deleted from Trash. The act of copying it to Trash starts the clock running. Moving the file out of Trash and back in the next day restarts the clock. Anything that messes with INTERNALDATE will inevitably be wrong for the indecisive user.
I was going to argue for option #2, but then I realized that if I sit on a message for weeks and then Trash it, it would make more sense that it would be deleted 7 days hence, not that night. Sites running without indexes shouldn't use this feature (or possibly this feature should be disabled if the appropriate index doesn't exist).
John
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