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<p dir="auto">Hi everyone,<br>
I want to throw away certain old messages after a specified time. But I want to use tags to set which messages get this treatment. In process terms:</p>
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<li>Message arrives, goes into an assigned mailbox.</li>
<li>I read it</li>
<li>I decide it should be kept until some condition or event happens, then thrown away. For now, the event is “the message is more than a month old.”</li>
<li>I set a tag “DELETE30” on the message.</li>
<li>The message remains in its regular mailbox.</li>
<li>After 30 days, the message is automatically deleted from the mailbox.</li>
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<p dir="auto">How can I do this?<br>
It’s easy to create a Smart Mailbox with messages that have tag DELETE30 and “Date Is Not Within Last 30 days” , using Conditions. But Conditions do not create actions, if I understand them. Rules carry out actions, but rules are only executed when a message is processed for other reasons.</p>
<p dir="auto">For example, is there a way to automatically delete messages in a particular Smart Mailbox, once a day?</p>
<p dir="auto">thanks for any suggestions. Drafting this message has clarified my thinking, but not led to a solution.]<br>
Roger</p>
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