Message retention for all mailboxes
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
As a Nextcloud Mail user I want to have https://github.com/nextcloud/mail/issues/5746 for any mailbox. E.g. only keep the last five years of messages in my inbox, delete the older ones.
Describe the solution you'd like
Allow defining retention for accounts and mailboxes.
Describe alternatives you've considered
N/a
Additional context
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files or tests are named. Start by reviewing the linked prior request, issue #5746, then trace how accounts and mailboxes are handled and how message deletion is triggered. Done means retention can be defined for accounts and individual mailboxes, with older messages deleted according to the configured period.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, php
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100