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<p dir="auto" style="margin: 1.12em 0;">The way you get the Rules subsystem to examine a message that is already delivered is to use a Smart Mailbox which only includes messages which are over a certain age. This way, messages get added to the Smart Mailbox at that age and get subjected to The Rules.</p>
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<p dir="auto" style="margin: 1.12em 0;">This doesn't seem to be true in my case. Here is my mailbox setup:</p>
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|_Smart Mailbox 1 [Filters for email@example.com]
|_Smart Mailbox 2 [Filters for messages received not within the last 14 days]
|_Rule [Permanently deletes messages received not within the last 14 days]
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<p dir="auto" style="margin: 1.12em 0;">If I understand correctly, when a message enters Smart Mailbox 2 on day 15 the rule should delete it. Am I misunderstanding or do I have the rule logic wrong?</p>
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