On 16 Apr 2014, at 16:21, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
My suggestion is simple (although maybe non-obvious): Archive like you
do now (button or shortcut) and add rules to the Archive mailbox. The
messages not matching any conditions are then going to stay in the
Archive.
Thanks, Benny, you're right, that is simpler than anything I'd
considered. A few specific questions
1) rules are automatically triggered only when messages arrive in a
mailbox, right?
2) can a rule include a second mailbox restriction?
3) are rules/searches based on address book groups any closer?
4) is there a way to tell if a message has been read less than x minutes
ago
And then in terms of strategy:
I already have smart mailboxes that define most of these searches. I was
thinking that I could add a rule to the smart mailbox that said:
* if this message is now in the archive folder then move it to its
permanent folder.
Alternatively I could have a rule in the Archive folder that says:
* if this message is also in smart folder X then move it to IMAP
folder Y.
But I don't see that either of those are possible right now (without
perhaps giving smart folders rules that give messages a tag). What I'd
like to avoid is duplicating all of my message search conditions in two
places (once in an archive rule, a second time in a smart folder).
Many thanks,
Greg.
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Gregory Jefferis, PhD
Division of Neurobiology
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Francis Crick Avenue
Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge, CB2 OQH, UK
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