[MlMt] Rules for Counting Messages

[Zvi Biener]

OK. Thanks!

On 24 Oct 2014, at 10:23, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> 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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