On 28 Feb 2015, at 16:40, Bart Lipman wrote:
This is a bit of a tangent but somewhat related. Is there any way to
set up a rule that compares the current date to the name of an IMAP
folder?
At least not easily. It would be possible to create a bundle command
executed by a rule and this could use the virtual header `#source.path`
to get the mailbox name, but I don't think that solves anything because
the main issue here is how to trigger the rule itself.
The idea: Periodically, I have a slew of emails that I'll need to
deal with at some specific future date. So I set up several different
IMAP folders, one for each such date, and name them by the date in
question. If I could create a smart folder that recognizes that
today's date matches the name of the folder and brings those emails
in, that would be very useful.
The feature you are looking for is known under various names. My
favorite is [Tickler File](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file).
I've written down various notes on how this could be implemented in
MailMate, but I haven't decided on anything and I haven't implemented
anything.
If you want to do something yourself using IMAP and smart mailboxes then
you could make a system of relative dates. For example, create IMAP
mailboxes, e.g, named like this:
Postponed 1 day
Postponed 1 week
Postponed 1 month
For each of those, create a smart mailbox like this:
Mailboxes: Postponed 1 day
Condition: Date is not within 1 day
Rule (no conditions): Move to Inbox
When postponing a message you would use ⌘T to move it to one of the
“Postponed” mailboxes.
Caveats:
* When the message is moved back then it is sorted using its old date.
If you have a large Inbox then it might be better to move it to a
separate action-inbox.
* The above is assumed to work on the original date of the message. In
other words, you cannot easily postpone a non-recent email. There is a
virtual “last-viewed-date” date which could work if you never view
postponed messages. I guess what you really need is a
“last-moved-date”, but that is not available (yet).
* The IMAP mailboxes allow you to see what is postponed on other
devices, but moving back requires MailMate. This is kind of unsolvable
without some kind of server support for postponed messages.
--
Benny
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