[MlMt] The Auto-apply Rules Strike Back

[David O'Donnell]

On 23 Mar 2015, at 16:26, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 23 Mar 2015, at 21:20, David O'Donnell wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> It's not obvious. Date-based conditions in rules like this are 
> special, because they are never triggered. This is because rules are 
> only checked when a message arrives in a mailbox. In this case, this 
> happens before the date-condition is true.
>
> The workaround is to make a smart mailbox with the date condition such 
> that the message does arrive in a mailbox when it matches the date 
> condition. The rule in this mailbox should then only have the “Move 
> to Mailbox” action (without any conditions). A side-effect is that 
> this smart mailbox is always empty.
>
> Yeah, it's not very intuitive and I am of course considering how to 
> improve this. It comes up relatively often.

I’m afraid I’m not getting it… I need another Smart Mailbox that 
is based on the real destination mailbox and triggers the delete action?

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