[MlMt] Still confused about rules

Antonio Leding tech at leding.net
Fri Apr 11 21:14:48 EDT 2025


If you could provide the screenshots of the “Mailbox”, 
“Conditions”,  and “Rules” panes of your Smart Mailboxes, I 
think that would help us help you a bit more…

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On 11 Apr 2025, at 18:12, Randy Abbott wrote:

>> I tested this and it works fine.  I think you may be running into the 
>>  "when the Rules are applied" part of this…
>>
>> Remember, the rule is only applied when the message is delivered into 
>> the SMOX, not when you create the SMBOX. In my scenario, I setup 
>> everything as you did but disabled the delete rule and then sent a 
>> few test messages. All were delivered as expected into the SMBOX that 
>> had the delete rule. I then enabled the delete rule and while leaving 
>> the previous messages in place. I then sent more test messages all of 
>> which were immediately deleted however the messages that were sent 
>> before I enabled the rule remained…
>
> I un-checked "Limit at start of day" and then manually ran the rule to 
> clear out SMBOX-2. I waited a couple of days until some messages 
> appeared. However, the rule didn't trigger and there are now messages 
> in SMBOX-2 that are older than 14 days. I'm not sure what I'm doing 
> wrong.
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