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Thunderbird Add-on: quickFilters
http://quickfilters.quickfolders.org/
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Feature Request: make time period for periodic filter customizable #116

Open RealRaven2000 opened 2 years ago

RealRaven2000 commented 2 years ago

I have a suggestion for another function. There is a possibility to start a filter "every 10 minutes". That is often. A good extension would be if you can set the intervals at which the filter starts (60 minutes, 120 minutes, 180 minutes). This would be a very useful extension for many users I think.

ThiloteE commented 2 years ago

... days, weeks, months

I have a filter I want to run roughly every 3 months. Right now I do this manually and remember by having a task in my task list.

RealRaven2000 commented 2 years ago

... days, weeks, months

I have a filter I want to run roughly every 3 months. Right now I do this manually and remember by having a task in my task list.

overwriting the global period (10 minutes) to something else and make that configurable is probably possible, but it sounds like you may want different time periods for different filters, which would mean it would need to be stored in the filter structure somehow (potentially as a new search term) - quickFilters / filtaQuilla cannot really change the fundamental definitions of filters so there are only search terms and actions, nothing else that can be persisted in a specific filter.

ThiloteE commented 2 years ago

Ah no, i am not arguing to store it in a different format. It is fine if it is stored in minutes, but maybe there is a way these minutes can be translated to other values (e.g. hours, days) for showing these values in the Filter UI and the other way round, when entering values in the UI, so that users will not have to to use a calculator for larger time frames :D Implementing this may not be worth the effort though...

I would be happy enough, if the 10 minutes could be edited to contain some user defined value.