[MlMt] Smart Mailbox for all emails with a size greater than x?

[leo]

Thanks Benny.

I thought so, but I wanted to make sure I haven’t missed anything.

Bundle sounds interesting, but I don’t have the time at the moment to 
play around like this…

Cheers,
Leo


On 28 Jan 2020, at 0:29, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 27 Jan 2020, at 3:14, leo wrote:
>
>> _I asked this before, but I didn’t see any reply, so maybe the mail 
>> didn’t get through. So here you go again:_
>
> I still have a huge backlog of unanswered emails to the list. In other 
> words, I'm most likely to be blamed for the lack of a reply.
>
>> How can I create a Smart Mailbox for all emails with size > x? (In my 
>> particular case is x = 50 MB)
>
> You cannot (easily).
>
>> I tried the `Size*` header, but it does not offer a numerical 
>> operator when added as condition…
>
> Yes, such an operator does not exist.
>
>> Then I tried the `Size*` header `Formatted` but still I found only 
>> string comparison. So I was able to get a condition for all emails > 
>> 1MB (by testing for string contains `MiB`) but not for > 50 MB.
>
> Yes, you'll need hacks like that for now. Very few headers are numeric 
> (size and spam scores) and I simply never implemented numeric 
> comparisons (but numeric message ordering does work). The only general 
> workaround would be to create a bundle command which could use the 
> virtual #size header to do the comparison and move itself, but this is 
> probably overkill (too much work for what should be much simpler).
>
> -- 
> Benny
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