From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   James Kuyper  wrote at 11:09 this Friday (GMT):   
   > 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.   
      
      
   It seems like a reasonable date to me. How would messages from almost a   
   year ago be that relevant?   
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