On 7 Aug 2020, at 17:06, Roger Bohn via mailmate wrote:
Hi everyone,
I want to throw away certain old messages after a specified time. But
I want to use tags to set which messages get this treatment. In
process terms:
* Message arrives, goes into an assigned mailbox.
* I read it
* I decide it should be kept until some condition or event happens,
then thrown away. For now, the event is “the message is more than a
month old.”
* I set a tag “DELETE30” on the message.
* The message remains in its regular mailbox.
* After 30 days, the message is automatically deleted from the
mailbox.
How can I do this?
It’s easy to create a Smart Mailbox with messages that have tag
DELETE30 and “Date Is Not Within Last 30 days” , using Conditions.
But Conditions do not create actions, if I understand them. Rules
carry out actions, but rules are only executed when a message is
processed for other reasons.
Rules are applied to a message when the message is added to the mailbox.
So, when a Date condition of a Smart Mailbox becomes true for a message,
the Rules are applied to it.
I use this to "expire" messages that are part of public mailing lists
like this one. I have a Smart Mailbox that includes all of the source
mailboxes I use for mailing lists and a mailbox condition of Date not
within the past 30 days, with a rule whose conditions exclude anything
I've replied to or which has my domain in the References or In-Reply-To
headers, with the action "Delete Permanently."
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Bill Cole
b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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