From: jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu   
      
   On 2025-11-04 16:10, candycanearter07 wrote:   
   > James Kuyper  wrote at 21:13 this   
   > Monday (GMT):   
   >> On 2025-11-03 11:50, candycanearter07 wrote:   
   >> ...> Can you set your newsreader to mark articles before a date as   
   >> read? I'd   
      
   I should have mentioned that a message filter can mark an article as   
   read. For some reason I misread your message and thought you wanted to   
   delete them.   
      
   >>> imagine setting it to do that with everything before this year could   
   >>> help clean it up.   
   >>   
   >> Mozilla Thunderbird's message filter can delete messages, and the   
   >> conditions for a filter can include the Date: header of the message, but   
   >> that header can only be compared to a fixed date. If you want to filter   
   >> out all old messages, you'll have to periodically update the date used   
   >> in the comparison.   
   >   
   >   
   > Couldn't you just check "Date before: 2025-01-01"?   
      
   Sure, if that's the date you want to use.   
      
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