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<p dir="auto">On 17 Apr 2017, at 23:26, Pedro Lobo wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">From my testing, this isn't working. If I add the rule to the global inbox and trigger apply rules, nothing happens, but if I select the email (or even all emails in inbox) and press apply rules, it works.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Manually applying the rules of the currently selected mailbox requires selecting the emails. This is expected behavior. (Ideally, there should be other variants of the Apply-menu item, but that's not implemented yet.)</p>
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<li value="1">Where is the ideal place to add a rule like this? global Inbox or each account's inbox</li>
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<p dir="auto">You might want to add rules to the “smallest” mailbox that you know includes the messages, but the global Inbox also works. You might not want to add rules to a lot of different mailboxes if you can avoid it since there is currently no easy way to see which mailboxes have rules (other than searching directly in the <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7">Mailboxes.plist</code> files).</p>
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<li value="2">Is it necessary that the message be selected for rules to be applied to it</li>
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<p dir="auto">Only when doing it manually.</p>
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<li value="3">If not, how often are rules run</li>
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<p dir="auto">Rules are applied when a message is “added” to a mailbox. In particular, when a message arrives in your Inbox. If a message is then moved to another mailbox then the rules of this mailbox are applied.</p>
<p dir="auto">If you think something is not working as intended then write me off list and we'll debug.</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Benny</p>
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