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

Randall Gellens mailmate at randy.pensive.org
Fri Apr 29 08:28:29 EDT 2022


On 28 Apr 2022, at 20:02, Bill Cole wrote:

> 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.

You're saying that MailMate doesn't resync a mailbox after it moves a 
message? And furthermore, ignores IDLE, which my server supports and 
which MM issues? Even if that was the case (which seems very hard to 
believe), then how is that the rules do work as intended at other times?

--Randall


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