[MlMt] Rules for Counting Messages

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 24 Oct 2014, at 15:48, Zvi Biener wrote:

> Sample case: I review my Junk mailbox occasionally, just to make sure 
> nothing got trapped in there, but I'd like to review it only when, 
> say, 10 messages have piled up. My ideal rule would watch for the 
> number of unread messages, and when it goes over ten, it would toggle 
> the "Displayed Count" property of the mailbox from "No Count" to 
> "Unread." Alternately, it can just notify me by script or otherwise. 
> But I can't figure out how to count messages...

I cannot think of a way to do that using smart mailboxes. It would 
require some kind of mailbox-level condition which would be a completely 
new concept in MailMate (all current conditions are message based). The 
query system in MailMate knows nothing about mailboxes.

It's an interesting idea though. I think most things could be done if 
actions could be triggered based on a single condition on some aspect of 
a single mailbox, e.g.,

	Count of [mailbox] > 10
	Size of [mailbox] > 100MB
	Attachments Size of [mailbox] > 100MB

This could be part of the current rules GUI and used with or without 
message conditions. For your problem then you would also need a new 
action type (“Set Mailbox Count to [Unread]”).

Well, just thinking out loud here :-)

Right now, you can run an external script which increases a counter 
(saved to disk or to a defaults variable). This hack could solve the 
first part of the problem, but I don't see any way to solve the second 
part of the problem without me implementing a new action method for 
rules.

-- 
Benny
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