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Mail: automatically moving old mail
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Feb 22, 2006, 05:17 PM
 
I would like to automatically move mail older than 60 days off of my imap server into a local folder on one of my computers. I set up a rule to do this and it performs fine when I manually run the rule, but I can't figure out how to run the rule automatically at set intervals (once a day for instance). Is this possible?

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Feb 23, 2006, 12:47 PM
 
You'll probably need to use Applescript. You can either have Applescript automatically run Manual or just convert the whole procedure to an Applescript. In other words you could write an AS that would tell Mail.app to apply rules to a particular mailbox. Or you could write an AS that would tell Mail.app to move messages in a set timed interval from one mailbox to another, doing away completely with the Mail.app rule.
     
   
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