On 13 Jun 2018, at 17:27 (-0400), Arnau Rebassa wrote:
Hi all,
I have a doubt with rules in smart mailboxes. According to the
documentation, rules:
“Rules are only triggered when a message is added to a mailbox which
most
often happens when a new message arrives in an account.”
What I understand what an smart mailbox is: they are like a “query
result”
that are executed periodically.
Yes and no. Obviously a query is not being run continuously, but it
isn't scheduled "periodically" either. It is triggered by the addition
of messages to or changes to existing messages in any of the subject
mailboxes.
If I’m right, when are the rules executed?
When a new message is added to a mailbox, the mailbox rules are
evaluated against the new message.
Every time you open the smart mailbox? or when the message arrives to
the
standard mailbox “inbox”?
Neither.
When a new message is seen by MM in any IMAP mailbox (not just INBOX,)
MM runs the rules associated with the IMAP mailbox against them
(possibly resulting in the moving of the message to another IMAP
mailbox) and then the conditions of the Smart Mailboxes which refer to
the changed IMAP mailbox are evaluated to determine the contents of each
Smart Mailbox. If that evaluation results in a new message in a Smart
Mailbox, its rules are run against the new message and then the
conditions of any Smart Mailboxes which refer to it are evaluated to
detect any new messages they should include, their rules are run, and so
on recursively.
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