[MlMt] rule for deleting messages

[Tim Lance]

I guess I’m spoiled my Mail.app. Preferences>Accounts>(particular 
account)>Mailbox Behaviors>Trash Mailbox>Erase deleted messages: pick 
from popup.

tim

On 21 Aug 2017, at 8:16, Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:

> One of the mailboxes I subscribe too is a gmail account. It gets a lot 
> of noise from a couple servers I admin, which I do not need to keep 
> beyond 30 days. I user gmail filters to move mail with certain 
> criteria to a gmail folder, and a script within google apps that works 
> on that folder as a cron sort of thing, and nightly deletes anything 
> older than 30 days. It could work directly on the inbox too, if I 
> wanted it to.
>
> The point is, is that sort of action works best on the server, and not 
> on the client, where rules general only run once on inbound mail, 
> without manual intervention. gmail is scriptable, and that’s handy. 
> Other servers may have other choices. Thinking out loud now too, would 
> it be possible with Applescript to have a task run in MlMt that would 
> manually run rules on all the contents of select mailboxes?
>
> v
>
>
> On 21 Aug 2017, at 7:07, Tim Lance wrote:
>
>> 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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