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.

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.

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.

Please add this, it will make managing mailbox size much easier.

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.

Ability to have my sent/ trash box delete anything older than say 30 days or 60 days or a year.

I see this subject very dead

Let's hope it's done in v4…

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.

Until they implement this, it's possible to automate this by using Bridge + Thunderbird's retention policies

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?

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).

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.

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.

Why is this not standard?

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 !

What’s the difference between trash and archive currently?

what ever happened with this? this would be extremely useful!!!!

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.

i agree. there should be a way to delete quickly and easily.