Hi All, just wondering if anyone has come across a good method of keeping only the most recent email (or worse case older then X days) from a list of subscription in your inbox, archiving the rest. Microsoft offer this via outlook.com (called sweep rules), however I’m a gmail user.
The closest that I can get to in Apple Mail on MacOS is to use a few SmartFolders, the first is an “any” rule that matches messages to a list of email addresses. The second is an “all” rule that just shows messages that are in the match SmartFolder and older than 5 days. Next step is to setup an automation rule on my always on Mac that opens the second folder and deletes/archive messages.
I’m hopeful that someone has a far better idea that I could borrow
if
message from = list of specific email addresses
and
message received date is = greater than 5 days
do
archive it
Thanks for any suggestions.
PS - I’ve tried to set this up just using Gmails rules, however they don’t have such a thing, and also the gmail interface is worse than apple mails rules interface.
That’s roughly the best I’ve come up with, using Apple’s stock apps. I wanted to auto-delete messages from specific addresses after a certain number of days (discount emails!).
Yep that is the same kind of capability that I’m looking for. It’s stuff that has a short shelf life.
Here is the sweep feature from Microsoft Outlook / Hotmail, given I have a premium subscription (for Office Apps mainly) I might just start using it as my primary email.
It won’t run automatically but you can create a rule in Mac Mail with:
From certain senders
AND
Date received is greater than 5 days then
Move item to Archive mailbox.
If you type Opt-Cmd-L it will run the rules on the current mailbox. Rules normally only get applied to mail as it is received. I use a lot of rules to sort my incoming mail into various subject related mailboxes.
