Re: [Evolution] How to archive to year-named subfolder of archive folder?

[Ángel <angel 16bits net>]

On 2020-09-22 at 20:21 -0500, J.B. Nicholson wrote:
> Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote:
> > out of interest, does it match the current year (aka the year the
> > Archive operation was initiated in), or a year from the Date
> > header,
> > +/- converted to the local time zone? It would be weird to have
> > archived message from 2015 in folder 2020, only because the Archive
> > function was initiated in year 2020.
>
> Yes; you're quite right on both counts. In fact, Thunderbird (version
> 68.12.0 
> (64-bit) at least where I just tested this) does the latter. Here's
> how I tested 
> that: I pressed "a" (Archive shortcut key) on a message sent in the
> year 2009 (per 
> its Date header) from the 2009 archive folder and that message stayed
> in the 2009 
> archive folder. I moved that message to my 2020 archive folder, went
> to the 2020 
> archive folder, and pressed "a" on it again. The message moved back
> to the 2009 folder.

I think such feature would require an Archive folder supporting
placeholders. Someone might want to use "Old-%Y", other "Archive/%Y",
some "Archive/%m-%Y" yet other "Archive/%Y-%m" .

As such, allowing a modifier so that it refers to the current or the
Received:/Date: timestamp, seems a little adjustment.

Best regards