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

[Eric Sharakan]

On 29 Apr 2022, at 8:41, Robert Wall wrote:

>> On Apr 29, 2022, at 7:28 AM, Randall Gellens <mailmate at randy.pensive.org> wrote:
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>> On 28 Apr 2022, at 20:02, Bill Cole wrote:
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>>> 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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>> 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?
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> I always just thought it was a minor UI glitch. When it happens to me, the moved message will sometimes be there for quite awhile- but if I switch to another mailbox and back quickly, it disappears as expected.

I'm pretty sure Benny has said in the past that this MM behavior is intentional, to prevent confusion caused by a message disappearing from (or appearing in) a mailbox you're currently looking at.

-Eric