[MlMt] Still confused about rules

[Bill Cole]

On 2025-03-15 at 14:22:51 UTC-0400 (Sat, 15 Mar 2025 12:22:51 -0600)
John Doherty <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> 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.

Correct.

The way you get the Rules subsystem to examine a message that is already delivered is to use a Smart Mailbox which only includes messages which are over a certain age. This way, messages get added to the Smart Mailbox at that age and get subjected to The Rules.


> 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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