[MlMt] rule for deleting messages

[Tim Lance]

Thanks, Bill. I’ll keep messing with this. I wonder what others do.

tim


On 20 Aug 2017, at 18:19, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 20 Aug 2017, at 13:39, Tim Lance wrote:
>
>> I want to delete messages older than 30 days. Yes, I understand the 
>> implications but I am not a huge email user.
>>
>> Best I can tell is I need to set a rule? I tried setting one for the 
>> “combined” mailbox: Deleted Messages. It does not work. I have 6 
>> IMAP accounts (5 gmail, 1 iCloud). I tried setting a rule for a 
>> particular mailbox in Deleted Messages. Nope.
>
>
> I've done something like this for abandoned Drafts over 30 days old. I 
> have a smart mailbox inside Drafts called DraftAbbatoir, that contains 
> anything in the aggregated Drafts mailbox which is over 30 days old. 
> That smart mailbox has a rule which does a sanity check (i.e. that 
> \Flagged and \Forwarded aren't set but \Draft is) and permanently 
> deletes anything which passes.
>
> This works because rules are only automatically run against a message 
> when it first appears in a mailbox. In my rig, messages appear in the 
> mailbox when they are 30 days old. If you have a rule set on Deleted 
> Messages, any message you delete in the usual way (provisionally) has 
> the rule tested against it at that time but never again unless you 
> select the message specifically and use the Apply Rules menu command.
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