On 11 Oct 2018, at 0:37, Robert Brenstein wrote:
Oh, I somehow missed your adding that option. I just checked and see
it, although some explanation is needed. If I have a mailbox with the
condition “date-received is not within last 12 months” what does
the option “limit at start of the month” exactly do? At first
reading, it sounds like it will check only once a month.
It'll round of to the beginning of a month. “within 1 month” would
be October 1st. “within 2 months” would be September 1st.
If that is correct, that would be too seldom. I delete like 200 to 500
emails a day, so the deletion queue would accumulate quite a bit over
the month, way beyond what I can inspect optically (occasionally, I
archive some mails after all).
Using 365 days instead of 12 months would round it to the beginning of a
day instead.
My suggestion would be to offer further options: once a month, once a
week, once a day if counting months, once a week, once a day if
counting weeks, etc. However, the most optimal, at least for me, would
be if I could specify the time of the day for the check to execute,
This is not really how it works. It is not a set of check times. It's a
condition on the date being greater or lower than some specific value. A
given message either matches the condition or it doesn't. It becomes
part of the set exactly when it matches the condition.
regardless whether I count days, weeks or months. I am guessing that
you probably wouldn’t have to change much the actual execution for
that option, just add the interface to set it. Well, you could simply
add further options to that popup, like daily at 1am, daily at 7am,
daily at 1pm, daily at 7pm. Yeah, 4 options for time would do, me
thinks.
Until someone comes along saying that 2pm is much better than 1pm.
I guess this would kind of be like using “not within past 6 hours”
but limited to the start of every 6 hours. This is hard to
communicate/understand and probably not very useful in general.
Maybe it's better done using a global setting which forces all
date-based conditions (except hours/minutes) to only update at specific
times of the day. Technically, I think this is a bit tricky to get right
though...
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