[MlMt] expiring deleted and sent

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 11 Oct 2018, at 0:37, Robert Brenstein wrote:

> Oh, I somehow missed your adding that option. I just checked and see 
> it, although some explanation is needed. If I have a mailbox with the 
> condition “date-received is not within last 12 months” what does 
> the option “limit at start of the month” exactly do? At first 
> reading, it sounds like it will check only once a month.

It'll round of to the beginning of a month. “within 1 month” would 
be October 1st. “within 2 months” would be September 1st.

> If that is correct, that would be too seldom. I delete like 200 to 500 
> emails a day, so the deletion queue would accumulate quite a bit over 
> the month, way beyond what I can inspect optically (occasionally, I 
> archive some mails after all).

Using 365 days instead of 12 months would round it to the beginning of a 
day instead.

> My suggestion would be to offer further options: once a month, once a 
> week, once a day if counting months, once a week, once a day if 
> counting weeks, etc. However, the most optimal, at least for me, would 
> be if I could specify the time of the day for the check to execute,

This is not really how it works. It is not a set of check times. It's a 
condition on the date being greater or lower than some specific value. A 
given message either matches the condition or it doesn't. It becomes 
part of the set exactly when it matches the condition.

> regardless whether I count days, weeks or months. I am guessing that 
> you probably wouldn’t have to change much the actual execution for 
> that option, just add the interface to set it. Well, you could simply 
> add further options to that popup, like daily at 1am, daily at 7am, 
> daily at 1pm, daily at 7pm. Yeah, 4 options for time would do, me 
> thinks.

Until someone comes along saying that 2pm is much better than 1pm.

I guess this would kind of be like using “not within past 6 hours” 
but limited to the start of every 6 hours. This is hard to 
communicate/understand and probably not very useful in general.

Maybe it's better done using a global setting which forces all 
date-based conditions (except hours/minutes) to only update at specific 
times of the day. Technically, I think this is a bit tricky to get right 
though...

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