Auto-Delete for Trash & Spam
Auto-Delete For Trash Folder

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Riccardo Sacchetto commented
A feature that automatically deletes emails moved to the trash for more than a month would be truly fantastic as it would allow better management of storage space.
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Anonymous commented
One of the things I really liked using Gmail for was how they automatically delete emails from Spam folder after 30 days. Ignoring other suggestions like "purge ON every X day", but it'd be better if each individual email will have their own 30 day existence period before they get purged away.
After this feature is introduced, I will then permanently move my "business" related email to ProtonMail.
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Bobby Randall commented
It would be a convenient thing if the spam folder 1. Auto deleted 30 day old content. And 2. didn't show the number of unread messages in the spam folder. THat's just a side note but I find it distracting.
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Harry commented
Please add this, it will make managing mailbox size much easier.
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PaulMadison commented
Please add "auto-delete after X days" feature to the trash can. Most email systems do this already. It's in the trash for a reason.
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Jordan commented
Ability to have my sent/ trash box delete anything older than say 30 days or 60 days or a year.
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RG commented
I see this subject very dead
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Geobomatic commented
Let's hope it's done in v4…
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Ken M. Haggerty commented
Seconded! I would love just a simple "Sort by Deletion Date" option because I too sometimes accidentally delete an item in my Inbox that isn't necessarily a recent email.
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Anonymous commented
Until they implement this, it's possible to automate this by using Bridge + Thunderbird's retention policies
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Ralf Meister commented
I like to have a button on my spam folder to empty it, like I have on my yahoo account.
Right now I have to delete each and every spam mail TWICE, because it first goes into the trash folder. WHY? -
[Deleted User] commented
It would be great to have the ability to delete from the trash all the items that are older than, say, one month or one year. I want to delete my old emails, but I am afraid of emptying the trash completely since there might be recently deleted items that I still need (which ideally shouldn't happen, but occasionally does). This means that I end up never emptying my trash, which takes up significant and unnecessary space in my account (and on Protonmail's servers).
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Robert Herald commented
Lance suggested that the age of trash (and its subsequent delete) be programmable to (1, 10, 30, 60, 90, 180) days. I would like to add that a NO delete option be included in the options, if that's the way it is today.
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Anonymous commented
Is this still open or am I overlooking this feature?. This was the most relevant search google could find after proton mail help didn't turn up anything. Need to be able to auto-cull any messages older than "X" days old, like every other mail service.
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KC commented
Why is this not standard?
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hk commented
This needs to be a standard feature and should be implemented ASAP.
The first request was way back in 2016 ! Why is it taking so long. Seems like an easy thing to implement !
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Amir G commented
What’s the difference between trash and archive currently?
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sharpshooter commented
what ever happened with this? this would be extremely useful!!!!
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JPL commented
Agree that basic auto-delete settings for the Trash and Spam folders (e.g., never, 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, 1 year) would be a great feature.
The more advanced implementation of this capability is described by SereneGreen below:
- extremely precise settings for how often the auto-delete occurs.
- having auto-delete settings *per folder*, including user-created folders.I personally don't need something this advanced but I think it's worth exploring either in the primary feature design or as an enhancement / v2.
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Anonymous commented
i agree. there should be a way to delete quickly and easily.