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Can we add a TTL to marketing emails? Max length is two weeks before the email is automatically deleted.
by adrr 3y ago
Can we add a TTL to marketing emails? Max length is two weeks before the email is automatically deleted.
- LinuxBender 3y agoSome mail providers somewhat support this. Fastmail for example allows setting retention limits on each folder including the trash and spam folders. One could make a folder for marketing and make rules for some of the bulk senders and then just keeping adding them as one finds them. Perhaps if enough people asked their mail provider they could add a global check-box for all the common email campaign providers.
- lostapathy 3y agoI put together some time-based filtering I use on my own inbox, it's awesome. I like letting most of my email land in my inbox, because I don't want to need to check (and purge a bunch of folders). But email of declining value will automatically get moved to folders after a certain amount of time. for example: * Monitoring alerts go to trash after 4 hours (if it's still broken, I'll get more emails, after all). * shipping notices from amazon etc go to trash after 3 days (long enough for the item to arrive on time) * Notices from ups/fedex about "your item is arriving today" go away after 24 hours * Marketing I don't mind seeing but has a shelf life - I have 2 or 3 time intervals setup for those * Mailing lists I'd like to read (but often don't get back to) delete after 2 weeks * Utility bills move to a folder for utility bills after 24 hours etc. It's awesome - but oddly enough, nobody I ever tell about it gets that excited.