I recently decided to rid my inbox in Mail of old messages. I created a rule to move them 5+ dats after being sent or received by me to Archive. This had precisely no effect, so I manually selected the messages that I wanted toclear from my Inbox, and moved them to Archive. By the time that I had reached the stage of deciding that I should be obliged to move the messages manually, I must have tinkered with the settings in Mail. At all, I now have messages in AllMail that ouoght to be in Inbox, messages that I have read are not marked as read, there seem to be multiple copies of messages, and, when I try to delete or move them, I do not achieve the result. I use GMail.
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Normally, with a basic IMAP mail account, you'd use the rules in MacOS Mail to do this kind of thing.
Gmail is a special case 😁. As posted above, do all the rule handling within Gmail itself.
This also comes with the advantage that the rules run immediately and you don't require your macbook Mail app to be running. In fact, any email provider which has good rule handling should be done this way.
Gmail is a special case 😁. As posted above, do all the rule handling within Gmail itself.
This also comes with the advantage that the rules run immediately and you don't require your macbook Mail app to be running. In fact, any email provider which has good rule handling should be done this way.