[MlMt] Still confused about rules

John Doherty jld at jld3.net
Sat Mar 15 14:22:51 EDT 2025


 From the manual:

"Rules are only triggered when a message is added to a mailbox which 
most often happens when a new message arrives in an account."

So once a message is in a mailbox, it will not be automatically 
evaluated against the mailbox rules again.

On Sat 2025-03-15 12:00 PM MDT -0600, <abbott_randy at outlook.com> wrote:

> I have a rule that permanently deletes any messages with a certain tag 
> if it was not received in the previous 14 days. However, messages 
> older than 14 days remain in the maibox. I can confirm the rule works 
> when it is executed manually. How does MailMate determine when to 
> execute a rule?


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