On 29 Apr 2022, at 6:09, Robert Wall wrote:
On 29 Apr 2022, at 7:55, Eric Sharakan wrote:
On 29 Apr 2022, at 8:41, Robert Wall wrote:
On Apr 29, 2022, at 7:28 AM, Randall Gellens
<mailm...@randy.pensive.org> wrote:
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? And furthermore, ignores IDLE, which my server supports
and which MM issues? 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?
I always just thought it was a minor UI glitch. When it happens to
me, the moved message will sometimes be there for quite awhile- but
if I switch to another mailbox and back quickly, it disappears as
expected.
I'm pretty sure Benny has said in the past that this MM behavior is
intentional, to prevent confusion caused by a message disappearing
from (or appearing in) a mailbox you're currently looking at.
If it's intentional that it stay, then it's still glitched - because
sometimes it disappears right away, and sometimes it doesn't.
In my opinion the behavior *should* be to process the rule
immediately, and register the results of that processing in the UI.
Otherwise you find yourself staring at messages and wondering why your
rules aren't firing. :)
Yes, exactly. It would seem to make more sense to download the message,
run it through the rules, then, if after that the message is put into a
mailbox currently being viewed, update the display to show it.
--Randall
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