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

[Bill Cole]

On 2022-04-27 at 17:28:20 UTC-0400 (Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:28:20 -0500)
Robert Wall <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> By "virtual folder" I'm assuming you mean "smart mailbox"? Does this 
> trigger automatically as soon as a message becomes "eligible" for that 
> mailbox (i.e. as soon as it passes that condition and shows up there 
> for the first time)?

Yes.


>
> On 22 Apr 2022, at 10:44, Charlie Clark wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> Longer explanation:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> I don't need to keep these messages longer than a couple of weeks - 
>>> 30 days max.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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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