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<p dir="auto">This is a bit of a tangent but somewhat related. Is there any way to set up a rule that compares the current date to the name of an IMAP folder? </p>
<p dir="auto">The idea: Periodically, I have a slew of emails that I'll need to deal with at some specific future date. So I set up several different IMAP folders, one for each such date, and name them by the date in question. If I could create a smart folder that recognizes that today's date matches the name of the folder and brings those emails in, that would be very useful.</p>
<p dir="auto">Bart</p>
<p dir="auto">On 26 Feb 2015, at 10:55, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 26 Feb 2015, at 15:48, David O'Donnell wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I had set up a Smart Mailbox to filter the messages from my INBOX into a separate folder and created a rule to move messages that were over 14 days old… but at some point in the past couple of months, the rule stopped working. When I tried to edit the rule today, I noticed that there is no comparison operator. So, e.g., the rule now reads “Date > Relative” “is” “14 days ago,” when I really want “if relative date is >= 14 days ago” since the rule clearly isn’t always getting triggered when a message is moved into the destination mailbox (by another rule attached to the Smart Mailbox).</p>
<p dir="auto">Am I missing something obvious, or is it just not possible to achieve what I want?</p>
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<p dir="auto">Just select “Date” and you'll have usable comparison options. (I should hide the “relative” variant since it neither works for this purpose and is very slow to use.)</p>
<p dir="auto">Also note the other replies you got. Currently, rules with date conditions do not work as expected since they are never triggered. You have to create a separate smart mailbox with the date condition and then add an actions-only rule to that. (I do plan to improve this.)</p>
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Benny</p>
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