Yeah, it goes that way sometimes. You either get no response or more than one. But it's OK, mine's going to have a few different features, and I've looked in to some interesting things while working on it.

Dang, meant to reply to this the other night then my youngest ran into the room with a toy to fix (Barbies head was off) and the rest is history as they say UNTIL now :p.

Release yours Kevin, will be nice to see other features but for those of you curious this already existed: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=179879

^ Link taken directly from: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=269719 and remember to check the other 3.x mods out that work for 4.x too some of them are quite nice.

Looks very old and it isn't always easy to tell when a 3.x mod works for 4.x or not.

But thank you for sharing it here.

Works just fine, also so you know Joe put together this thread - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=269719 and has then added mods over time that community members have tested and reported working on 4.x ;).

How is the progress going @kh99?

Oh, well, to be honest there hasn't been a lot since I figured you'd end up going with one of the others. But I haven't forgotten about it. In fact I have a few other features including 'prune only if x% full' that you mentioned.

Oh, BTW, is the ability to prune only certain folders important? I see a few of the others have that, but I hadn't thought about it.

Well no I was waiting on yours. Truly. I plan to use your mod.

Well if you have an important folder made with certain PM's in it you don't want deleted I think so yeah.

Very important to choose what folders like send and inbox folder get cleaned up if getting filled up to 80% for example or just when they are full.

Maybe it would be a good idea not to shock the user by just cleaning out 50% of the oldest PM's or so. Not the whole inbox and send out box. And repeat this process in a cron job.

So the ability to choose what folders gets cleaned is important. Now I don't know how you plan to handle this though as a user can create some custom folders and store PM's in that to.

So how could we handle that?

Hmm...so are you saying it should only ever clear out inbox and sent, or you want each user to be able to choose whether or not to prune a folder? The first one I could do, the second one I don't think I'd want to get in to (not to mention the fact that users probably don't want anything pruned anyway, if given a choice).

And are you also sayng the percentage should apply to each folder separately?

send out: 80% cleaned out oldest first

inbox: 50% cleaned out oldest first

custom made folders only cleared out if full - < 90% for 50% like inbox oldest first.


could that work?

Sure. I can make each of those percentages configurable.