thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android

Unified Inbox: Filter messages by age

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status: needs design type: enhancement
Dominant language
Kotlin
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Description

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  • I have used the search function to see if someone else has already submitted the same feature request.
  • I will describe the problem with as much detail as possible.
  • This issue only contains a request for one single feature, not multiple (related) features.
App version

6.715

Problem you are trying to solve

I hope there's a setting that can hide old mails from unified mailbox
For prevent accidently delete old mails
I know I can just move mails to not unified folder but I mostly just delete mails
I don't want to organize folders for few mails

Suggested solution

option like hide mails (1 day/3 days/1 week/1month) old from unified mailbox

Screenshots / Drawings / Technical details

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Research direction

No files or tests are named in the issue. Start by locating the unified mailbox implementation and its settings entry point, then define and verify filtering for messages older than 1 day, 3 days, 1 week, or 1 month, with the selected threshold hiding those messages from the unified mailbox.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
android, kotlin
Domain
mobile
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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