Re: [MlMt] Is there a way to schedule rules running in MailMate?
On 2022-04-28 at 18:03:47 UTC-0400 (Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:03:47 -0700) Randall Gellens is rumored to have said: This is what I do for all my archive and auto-delete functions, but it seems to me that the rules in the smart mailbox don't always fire until I click on the mailbox to view it, a bit like Schrödinger's mailbox. I also find this behavior in general, e.g., I see a new message arrive in my main Inbox that should have been moved by a rule to a different mailbox, but instead it sits in my Inbox for hours (maybe longer) but if I click on the mailbox to which it should have been moved, there it is and it's gone when I switch back to the Inbox. It seems that, for whatever reason, rules don't always trigger or at least the effect of them running isn't always visible. But other times they do seem to run automatically. This is an IMAP artifact. You don't see the message in the new location until you resynch the new location. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] remove text from incoming/outgoing emails
On 25 Apr 2022, at 9:02, Martin Dege wrote: I want to purposefully remove them from incoming messages. That was my question. - so I don’t have to remove them every time something is forwarded. This (editing messages) has come up before. Someone mentioned that there was a command to edit a message that they were trying to create a bundle to use. I'm not aware of any way to edit messages. I wish there was. Mac Eudora had an "edit" feature (only available in advanced mode) that allowed one to edit a message. When finished editing, Eudora would use IMAP APPEND to upload the edited message and would delete the original message. I found it extremely helpful to add notes and follow-up. In your specific case, all I can think of would be to have a rule that exported the message to a folder, then have a shell script or Automator action, set to run when a file is added to the folder, that deleted the text and then re-sends the message to you using the command-line emate tool. I don't know if it would work to set the "From" to the original sender's "From" (your server might block it) but if so that would be the closest to what you want that I can think of. --Randall ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Is there a way to schedule rules running in MailMate?
On 22 Apr 2022, at 8:44, Charlie Clark wrote: On 21 Apr 2022, at 22:29, Robert Wall wrote: TL;DR - I'd like to be able to fire off the mail rules for a given folder once per day. Longer explanation: I have a server that sends me status emails. A lot of status emails. And I need to receive these status emails not because I want to read every single one, but because if something goes sideways I need to be able to poke through the messages for clues / hints. I don't need to keep these messages longer than a couple of weeks - 30 days max. And I have other situations where I'll get 3 or 4 messages for the same thing. Amazon order placed, Amazon order shipped, Amazon order delayed, Amazon order delivered being a good example. I only need to keep the last one. So I have some existing rules that I can fire off manually which will look for stuff with certain subject lines / senders that's older than 30 days or so, and clean those up - but I still have to run them manually. I'm more than happy to use cron, launchd, or some sort of system automation to tell MailMate to do this if that's what's required. Or if there's a way in the software itself, that would be wonderful as well. Any thoughts? Yes. Based on something Bill Cole mentioned a while back I set up a virtual folder to collect such messages with a condition "date received is not within last" 30 days and a rule to delete the mails permanently. This needs better documentation but shows the power and flexibility of MailMate's approach. This is what I do for all my archive and auto-delete functions, but it seems to me that the rules in the smart mailbox don't always fire until I click on the mailbox to view it, a bit like Schrödinger's mailbox. I also find this behavior in general, e.g., I see a new message arrive in my main Inbox that should have been moved by a rule to a different mailbox, but instead it sits in my Inbox for hours (maybe longer) but if I click on the mailbox to which it should have been moved, there it is and it's gone when I switch back to the Inbox. It seems that, for whatever reason, rules don't always trigger or at least the effect of them running isn't always visible. But other times they do seem to run automatically. --Randall ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
