On 10 Oct 2018, at 0:46, Randall Gellens wrote:
On 8 Oct 2018, at 10:52, Randy Bush wrote:
clearly i do not understand how a smart mailbox is different than a
stupid one
Think of a smart mailbox as a continually executed search. You can
perform actions on messages that meet the search criteria.
Yes, a smart mailbox is just a saved search. Technically, everything in
MailMate is a search including the IMAP mailboxes (but that's an
implementation detail).
Some other comments for this thread:
* Smart mailboxes are always up-to-date. The only exception is if, e.g.,
marking something as read in a mailbox of unread messages. Updating is
then delayed until the mailbox is deselected (MailMate has go through
hoops to make this happen because up-to-date is its modus operandi).
* Smart mailboxes involving date-based conditions are updated exactly
when the date condition is met. MailMate sets up a timer after figuring
out which message is the next one to be added to or removed from the
mailbox.
* There's no way to make deletion happen 30 days after a message has
been added to a mailbox. The closest is to base it on the virtual
“Date-Last-Viewed” header, but this won't work well for messages
never viewed or messages viewed on a different machine.
It might make sense to introduce a virtual date header which remembers
when a message was first seen by MailMate in its current IMAP mailbox.
I'll give that some thought.
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Benny
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