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<p dir="auto">I don’t understand why SMBOX-2; simply apply the delete rule to the SMBOX-1. Why is that a bad idea?</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 8 Apr 2025, at 15:55, Randy Abbott wrote:</p>
</div><div class="plaintext" style="white-space: normal;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; color: #777777;"><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 5px; padding-left: 5px; border-left: 2px solid #777777; border-left-color: #999999; color: #999999;"><p dir="auto">What are you actually seeing happen at Rule 2? Perhaps there is some relationship between the Rules that is missing. Can you be more specific on the settings, pls.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">The code formatting seems to not have come through.</p>
<p dir="auto">"Smart Mailbox 2" is a sub-mailbox of "Smart Mailbox 1" and "Rule" is attached to "Smart Mailbox 2".</p>
<p dir="auto">I would expect for "Smart Mailbox 2" to always be empty because any messages that fall into it would be deleted by the rule (i.e., a message is 15-days old and falls into "Smart Mailbox 2" and the rule evaluates the message and permanetly deletes it). However, that is not the case for me. Messages older than 14 days appear in "Smart Mailbox 2" and is never deleted by the rule.</p>
<p dir="auto">Deleted Messages
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__Smart Mailbox 1 [Filters for email@example.com]
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____Smart Mailbox 2 [Filters for messages received not within the last 14 days]
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_______Rule [Permanently deletes messages received not within the last 14 days]</p>
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