[MlMt] Archive by applying rules with default of move to Archive folder

[Dr Gregory Jefferis]

On 16 Apr 2014, at 16:21, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> My suggestion is simple (although maybe non-obvious): Archive like you 
> do now (button or shortcut) and add rules to the Archive mailbox. The 
> messages not matching any conditions are then going to stay in the 
> Archive.

Thanks, Benny, you're right, that is simpler than anything I'd 
considered. A few specific questions

1) rules are automatically triggered only when messages arrive in a 
mailbox, right?
2) can a rule include a second mailbox restriction?
3) are rules/searches based on address book groups any closer?
4) is there a way to tell if a message has been read less than x minutes 
ago

And then in terms of strategy:

I already have smart mailboxes that define most of these searches. I was 
thinking that I could add a rule to the smart mailbox that said:
  * if this message is now in the archive folder then move it to its 
permanent folder.

Alternatively I could have a rule in the Archive folder that says:
  * if this message is also in smart folder X then move it to IMAP 
folder Y.

But I don't see that either of those are possible right now (without 
perhaps giving smart folders rules that give messages a tag). What I'd 
like to avoid is duplicating all of my message search conditions in two 
places (once in an archive rule, a second time in a smart folder).

Many thanks,

Greg.

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Gregory Jefferis, PhD
Division of Neurobiology
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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