[FEATURE] Automatic deletion of mails in the source mailbox after archiving

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5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
32/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
rust
Domain
backend, databases

Research direction

The request concerns deleting source mailbox messages after Bichon archives them, optionally after a user-selected age, but it names no files or tests. Start by tracing the IMAP archive flow and how mailbox settings are configured; then identify how successful archival and deletion can be safely coordinated. Done means users can enable the behavior and choose an age threshold, with tests covering the deletion conditions.

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Description

enhancement
Description

Similar to more enterprise-ey softwares like Mailstore, it would be very useful to have an option to allow automatic deletion of mails in the source mailbox that have already been archived by Bichon.

Purpose / Use Case

People tend to get close to their maximum quota of free space in their mailboxes. For example, Gmail offers 15GB of space which I'm nearly always using 90% of.
Softwares like Mailstore allow to delete mails in the source mailbox after those mails have been archived, or delete only mails older than X days/weeks/months/years after they were archived.
This allows for users to keep their mailboxes (Gmail and similar hosted ones) at a reasonable size (and also drastically improves the time needed for any mail application to sync my mails, lol).

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I apologize if my feature request is out of the scope of this project!

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