[MlMt] expiring deleted and sent

[Robert Brenstein]

Just to report back:

I have been using the new feature, that is I converted the thresholds 
from weeks and months to days and activated the once per day condition, 
for almost a week. It works fine and does exactly what I wanted. The 
volume of mails to check is, however, as I was afraid, a bit too high, 
so it would be great if another option was added to check twice a day. 
Four times a day might not be needed after all.

I haven’t quite figured out what time exactly is used for the check. I 
suspect it might be the time I set the condition since the mails to 
delete show up some time during the day. It might be indeed a good idea 
to be able to (optionally) specify the check time in the settings. I 
mean the time of the day after which the once-a-day (or whatever the 
time period is active) check runs. It could be a hidden option for what 
I care.

Robert

On 25 Oct 2018, at 11:30, Robert Brenstein wrote:

>>> 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.
>
> Ah, okay, I will try that, although as I said 1 day is really too long 
> for the volume of mail I have.
>
>>> 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.
>
> Yeah, that could be a global setting.
>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, that is what I am after. Checking once a day would be fine if I 
> was not inspecting the list. Since I do, it should not be too long.
>
>> 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...
>
> The problem with a global setting is that some mailboxes should 
> continue to update all the time whereas some should update only on a 
> schedule. I use both. However, as indicated above, a global setting 
> could specify the reference time for each user and mailboxes could be 
> set to check every 6 or every 12 hours from that time, as needed.
>
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