[MlMt] Rules and when are they applied

[Pedro Lobo]

Thanks for the feedback Benny.

I went back and did a more thorough search of the archives and based on 
some prior advice, I created a smart mailbox just for this purpose. Now 
it’s working wonderfully :)

On 18 Apr 2017, at 9:51, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 17 Apr 2017, at 23:26, Pedro Lobo wrote:
>
>> From my testing, this isn't working. If I add the rule to the global 
>> inbox and trigger apply rules, nothing happens, but if I select the 
>> email (or even all emails in inbox) and press apply rules, it works.
>
> Manually applying the rules of the currently selected mailbox requires 
> selecting the emails. This is expected behavior. (Ideally, there 
> should be other variants of the Apply-menu item, but that's not 
> implemented yet.)
>
>> 1. Where is the ideal place to add a rule like this? global Inbox or 
>> each account's inbox
>
> You might want to add rules to the “smallest” mailbox that you 
> know includes the messages, but the global Inbox also works. You might 
> not want to add rules to a lot of different mailboxes if you can avoid 
> it since there is currently no easy way to see which mailboxes have 
> rules (other than searching directly in the `Mailboxes.plist` files).
>
>> 2. Is it necessary that the message be selected for rules to be 
>> applied to it
>
> Only when doing it manually.
>
>> 3. If not, how often are rules run
>
> Rules are applied when a message is “added” to a mailbox. In 
> particular, when a message arrives in your Inbox. If a message is then 
> moved to another mailbox then the rules of this mailbox are applied.
>
> If you think something is not working as intended then write me off 
> list and we'll debug.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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Cheers,
Pedro Lobo
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