Just to report back:
I have been using the new feature, that is I converted the thresholds
from weeks and months to days and activated the once per day condition,
for almost a week. It works fine and does exactly what I wanted. The
volume of mails to check is, however, as I was afraid, a bit too high,
so it would be great if another option was added to check twice a day.
Four times a day might not be needed after all.
I haven’t quite figured out what time exactly is used for the check. I
suspect it might be the time I set the condition since the mails to
delete show up some time during the day. It might be indeed a good idea
to be able to (optionally) specify the check time in the settings. I
mean the time of the day after which the once-a-day (or whatever the
time period is active) check runs. It could be a hidden option for what
I care.
Robert
On 25 Oct 2018, at 11:30, Robert Brenstein wrote:
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.
Ah, okay, I will try that, although as I said 1 day is really too long
for the volume of mail I have.
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.
Yeah, that could be a global setting.
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.
Yes, that is what I am after. Checking once a day would be fine if I
was not inspecting the list. Since I do, it should not be too long.
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...
The problem with a global setting is that some mailboxes should
continue to update all the time whereas some should update only on a
schedule. I use both. However, as indicated above, a global setting
could specify the reference time for each user and mailboxes could be
set to check every 6 or every 12 hours from that time, as needed.
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