Yes! It's been on the list since 2014 and has 22 votes, one of the highest-rated ideas:

https://portal.smartertools.com/community/a1088/feature-suggestion-modification-to-auto-clean-process-1.aspx 

Thanks, Nathan, for reminding us and hopefully it will make the list for 2020 implementation.

+1 Yes, this would makes much more sense to use the date it was moved to delete folder, instead of the received date.

Some of our customers already reported they lost mails because they "accidently" moved an entire folder to the Delete items and got their mails older than X days purged right away.

It is great to see this thread has now the "planned" status :)) Thanks

I just wanted to find this kind of topics here. I see that other people are also requesting this. Today I had customer which was telling that he did not do anything (obviously right?) but he had some issues with internet connection and all of his messages disappeared. We found them in deleted items (but sadly not all of them because they where deleted - we have a backup but still this is using our support time). It would be no problem if deleted items mechanism would count X days from placing message inside deleted items instead of using delivery date.

I've made a suggestion in older topic which would make this at least for some of situations solved:

This would allow customers and also us as a service providers to recover deleted messages before auto clean process.

I see this got switched to "Planned" which is good to hear.

Hoping you can post a timeline. This year, next year?  Thanks.

Hello all, 

I realized this thread was not updated, and I wanted to do so now. In Build 7685 (Jan 15, 2021), we addressed this functionality:

When a user creates an auto-clean rule, they'll now have the following options: