On 2022-04-29 at 08:28:29 UTC-0400 (Fri, 29 Apr 2022 05:28:29 -0700)
Randall Gellens <mailmate@lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:
On 28 Apr 2022, at 20:02, Bill Cole wrote:
On 2022-04-28 at 18:03:47 UTC-0400 (Thu, 28 Apr 2022 15:03:47 -0700)
Randall Gellens <mailmate@lists.freron.com>
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.
You're saying that MailMate doesn't resync a mailbox after it moves a
message?
It *seems* not to, based on my observations. I have not dug deeply into
this, because it isn't something that has particularly annoyed me.
My assertion is based solely on my non-rigorous experience with this
sort of behavior. Rule-triggered rules seem to result in delayed synch.
It is entirely possible that I've misanalyzed the issue.
And furthermore, ignores IDLE, which my server supports and which MM
issues?
I have not noticed the behavior with mailboxes that are in IDLE, but I
likely would not. I use a mix of server-side (procmail) rules that
operate during delivery, and client-side (MailMate, on 2 Macs) rules
that handle messages after delivery, and I should not (in principle...)
be moving messages in and out of INBOX robotically, which is the only
mailbox I have on IDLE.
Even if that was the case (which seems very hard to believe), then how
is that the rules do work as intended at other times?
Benny question. I don't even have a guess as to how he makes the rules
system work as it does. It isn't obvious how the expiry rig I use
manages to work, but it does.
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