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

[Robert Wall]

On 29 Apr 2022, at 7:55, Eric Sharakan wrote:

> 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:
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> 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.

If it's intentional that it stay, then it's still glitched - because 
sometimes it disappears right away, and sometimes it doesn't.

In my opinion the behavior *should* be to process the rule immediately, 
and register the results of that processing in the UI. Otherwise you 
find yourself staring at messages and wondering why your rules aren't 
firing. :)
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