If you create a smart mailbox that contains the emails you want to delete, you can visit it periodically, select all, and delete. A ¡°smart¡± thing on your Mac is simply a saved search based on criteria. They¡¯re used to easily find things so you don¡¯t have to manually repeat a complex search.
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On Apr 9, 2025, at 12:09, John via groups.io <OceanCity@...> wrote:
On Apr 9, 2025, at 2:37?PM, Jerald Levinson via groups.io <levinson@...> wrote:
Are these email in various mailboxes? For instance, you may have one mailbox with Santa Claus emails going back 20 years. Of those, you want to keep the last 6 months worth. Create a new mailbox, move the emails you want to keep to that mailbox, then just delete the old mailbox. Repeat for other folders. This would be easier, depending on the number of emails, than just selecting all and moving them to the Trash.
The problem I see with a rule, is that it may delete emails from the wrong folders, stuff you want to keep. If you create a Smart Mailbox and set the condition for "emails over 30 days old" it would suck them out of all your folders, again including stuff you want to keep.
My two cents,
Jerry
I would treat different mailboxes with different smart mailbox rules depending on how much I want to save.
Never have used a 'smart' mailbox, so forgive my ignorance as well as my grammar.?
BUT, I don't see the option in a new Smart mailbox to "Delete emails after xx days."
I'll keep looking.
TIA,
John?
Ben Rosenthal