Freron MailMate

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  benny February 13th, 2016 @ 07:19 PM

  • State changed from “new” to “accepted”

  Currently it only works on the currently selected messages. I guess, if nothing is selected, the menu item could change name to “Apply Rules to "Mailbox Name"”.

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  fnurl February 13th, 2016 @ 10:20 PM

  Ah, ok, I thought it was supposed to apply the rules to all messages in the folder. Is that not what the rules do if I do not apply them manually?

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  benny February 14th, 2016 @ 10:28 AM

  Rules are only applied to “new” messages in the mailbox. In this context “new” does not mean delivery (e.g., to the INBOX). It just means that a message is added to a mailbox which is was not previously part of. This could happen by moving a message or tagging it (if some smart mailbox with rules includes the tagged emails).

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  benny February 14th, 2016 @ 10:29 AM

  (In some cases more persistent rules would be useful, in particular when based on dates. That's on my todo, but I haven't done any work on it yet.)

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  fnurl February 14th, 2016 @ 12:32 PM

  Thanks for the clarification Benny. I have one more question though. Do I have to visit/view the Smart Mailbox with the rule after a change has been made that would mean it getting "new" messages? Or are smart mailboxes "viewed" in the background at regular intervals?

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  benny February 14th, 2016 @ 08:03 PM

  Not just at random intervals: Smart mailboxes are always up-to-date. In fact, there is no difference (internally) between a smart mailbox and an IMAP mailbox. The latter is just a smart mailbox only matching emails with a specific IMAP path.

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  Muescha June 7th, 2017 @ 05:13 PM

  but how i can create rules like "empty folder 'Deleted Messages' older than 6 Months"
  i just created a Mailbox and apply condition "older 6 months" and a rule. but i can not click the folder and execute a rule.

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  benny June 9th, 2017 @ 09:05 AM

  @Muescha: To manually trigger the rule then you also need to select all of the emails in the mailbox.

  To do it automatically, you need to create a separate smart mailbox which only shows messages older than 6 months. This mailbox can then have a rule without any conditions and just the “Delete Permanently” rule action.

  The reason a separate mailbox is (still) needed is because rules are only checked when a message “enters” a mailbox. If it wasn't more then 6 months old at that time then it won't execute the rule action even if the condition is fulfilled later on. The separate smart mailbox works around this.

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  Muescha June 9th, 2017 @ 03:38 PM

  1) To manually trigger the rule then you also need to select all of the emails in the mailbox.

  i expected, when i do the right click at the mailbox then the rules are automatic for ALL emails in this folder (without selecting).

  2) i mean i already have done it as a smart mailbox - that means when when a mail first time fulfill the "older than 6 month" the email "enter" the smart mailbox and rules apply?

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  benny September 21st, 2017 @ 06:57 AM

  • State changed from “accepted” to “fixcommitted”

  The “Apply Rules” menu item has now been changed such that it has two subitems. One for applying to the entire mailbox and one for applying to selected messages only. There is also an “Edit Rules” menu item which opens the smart mailbox editor and switches to the Rules pane.

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  benny September 22nd, 2017 @ 12:54 PM

  • State changed from “fixcommitted” to “fixreleased”

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