[MlMt] Auto delete old messages that have a certain tag?

[Carlos Moffat]

Hi Roger,

My understanding from having gone through a similar issue a while ago is 
that what you want isn’t possible. There’s no way to create rules 
that run on a schedule. MailMate only processes mail as it comes in. You 
could create, I think, a smart folder where thy DELETE30 email is 
collected, and the smart folder could have an action that deletes the 
email if it has the tag and it’s old enough, but you’ll need to run 
the rule manually (which of course defeats the purpose of the system).

Happy to be proven wrong as I’d like to have other ways to process 
existing mail.

Best,
Carlos

On 7 Aug 2020, at 17:06, Roger Bohn via mailmate wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> I want to throw away certain old messages after a specified time. But 
> I want to use tags to set which messages get this treatment. In 
> process terms:
>
> * Message arrives, goes into an assigned mailbox.
> * I read it
> * I decide it should be kept until some condition or event happens, 
> then thrown away. For now, the event is “the message is more than a 
> month old.”
> * I set a tag “DELETE30” on the message.
> * The message remains in its regular mailbox.
> * After 30 days, the message is automatically deleted from the 
> mailbox.
>
> How can I do this?
> It’s easy to create a Smart Mailbox with messages that have tag 
> DELETE30 and “Date Is Not Within Last 30 days” , using Conditions. 
> But Conditions do not create actions, if I understand them. Rules 
> carry out actions, but rules are only executed when a message is 
> processed for other reasons.
>
> For example, is there a way to automatically delete messages in a 
> particular Smart Mailbox, once a day?
>
> thanks for any suggestions. Drafting this message has clarified my 
> thinking, but not led to a solution.]
> Roger
>
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