Awesome response!!! Thanks a lot!! -- Arnau
> On 14 Jun 2018, at 06:41, Bill Cole <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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. > > > > -- > Bill Cole > [email protected] or [email protected] > (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) > Currently Seeking Steadier Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
