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<p dir="auto">On 31 Oct 2016, at 4:10, Patrik Fältström wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">I have one mailbox where I have the name of subfolders in the form of "${#date.month}".<br>
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Can I also use that expression in one way or another in the rules?<br>
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For example: "Move to folder /x/${#date.year}/${#date.month}"</p>
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<p dir="auto">Not as easily as that (although it would be nice if it were). The workaround is to create a bundle command and I've attached an example of that. That command can then be used in rules.</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">And of course have that folder be created if it does not exist?</p>
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<p dir="auto">That always happens when moving something to a non-existing mailbox.</p>
<p dir="auto">I should explain the command (since it's undocumented):</p>
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name = 'Archive to Date';
environment = 'MM_FOLDER=${#date.month/-/\\//}\n';
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<p dir="auto">The <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">environment</code> is used to “transfer” a header value to the script. In this case a bit of regex is also used to convert <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">-</code> to <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">/</code>.</p>
<pre style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px; margin-left:15px; margin-right:15px; max-width:90vw; overflow-x:auto; padding:5px" bgcolor="#F7F7F7"><code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0" bgcolor="#F7F7F7"> output = actions;
command = '#!/bin/bash
cat << END
{ actions = ( { type = moveMessage; mailbox = "/Archive/${MM_FOLDER}"; } ); }
END
';
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<p dir="auto">The <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">actions</code> output type is used when a script needs MailMate to perform various actions, e.g., setting tags, moving messages, creating new (and possibly send) messages, etc. MailMate expects a property list with the wanted actions. The <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">moveMessage</code> type requires a <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">mailbox</code> value. When this value starts with <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">/</code> then the mailbox name is automatically assumed to be located in the same mailbox as the message moved.</p>
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}
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<p dir="auto">Note that if you create other commands then the <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">uuid</code> <em>must</em> be unique. You can put such a value on the pasteboard with this snippet for a Terminal window:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Save the attached bundle in this folder:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Note that it should not be necessary to relaunch MailMate when making changes to bundles.</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Benny</p>
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