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

Bill Cole mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com
Thu Apr 28 23:02:13 EDT 2022


On 2022-04-28 at 18:03:47 UTC-0400 (Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:03:47 -0700)
Randall Gellens <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> This is what I do for all my archive and auto-delete functions, but it 
> seems to me that the rules in the smart mailbox don't always fire 
> until I click on the mailbox to view it, a bit like Schrödinger's 
> mailbox. I also find this behavior in general, e.g., I see a new 
> message arrive in my main Inbox that should have been moved by a rule 
> to a different mailbox, but instead it sits in my Inbox for hours 
> (maybe longer) but if I click on the mailbox to which it should have 
> been moved, there it is and it's gone when I switch back to the Inbox. 
> It seems that, for whatever reason, rules don't always trigger or at 
> least the effect of them running isn't always visible. But other times 
> they do seem to run automatically.

This is an IMAP artifact. You don't see the message in the new location 
until you resynch the new location.

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