[MlMt] Is there a way to schedule rules running in MailMate?

[Charlie Clark]

On 21 Apr 2022, at 22:29, Robert Wall wrote:

> TL;DR - I'd like to be able to fire off the mail rules for a given folder once per day.
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> Longer explanation:
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> I have a server that sends me status emails. A lot of status emails. And I need to receive these status emails not because I want to read every single one, but because if something goes sideways I need to be able to poke through the messages for clues / hints.
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> I don't need to keep these messages longer than a couple of weeks - 30 days max.
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> And I have other situations where I'll get 3 or 4 messages for the same thing. Amazon order placed, Amazon order shipped, Amazon order delayed, Amazon order delivered being a good example. I only need to keep the last one.
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> So I have some existing rules that I can fire off manually which will look for stuff with certain subject lines / senders that's older than 30 days or so, and clean those up - but I still have to run them manually.
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> I'm more than happy to use cron, launchd, or some sort of system automation to tell MailMate to do this if that's what's required. Or if there's a way in the software itself, that would be wonderful as well.
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> Any thoughts?

Yes. Based on something Bill Cole mentioned a while back I set up a virtual folder to collect such messages with a condition "date received is not within last" 30 days and a rule to delete the mails permanently.

This needs better documentation but shows the power and flexibility of MailMate's approach.

Charlie

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