[MlMt] The Auto-apply Rules Strike Back

[David O'Donnell]

It seems that my enthusiastic statement a while back that sorting and 
trimming rules for a Smart Mailbox were working was premature. *Sorting* 
mail from INBOX→destination→show in a smart mailbox works fine, but 
the “delete if over X days old” trimming rule isn’t. If I apply 
the trimming rule to the destination mailbox (because I don’t want 
these messages filling up my INBOX), I can apply it manually and it 
works but it is never executed automatically.

In short:
I created a Smart Mailbox called “NextDraft” that is a view on a 
folder in one of my IMAP accounts (Mailboxes tab, match on Any of the 
following mailboxes, filtered to the specific mailbox I set up).
On the Conditions tab, I have “All” set for “From ▸ Name is 
(listtname).”
On the Rules tab, I have a type “ ⒸⒶ” rule with the condition 
“All” are true: “From ▸ Name is (listtname)” and action of 
“Move to Mailbox” to the destination.

The mailbox where the newsletter messages are moved has a type “ 
ⒸⒶ” rule with the condition “All” are true: “Date is not 
within last 10 days” and action of “Move to Mailbox” to Deleted 
Messages.

I’m sure I must be missing something obvious.

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