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Re: How to Auto-Delete old emails after xx days?

 

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Unless there is a major change in Mail with Sequoia, the ability to delete emails after XX days was a universal setting that applied to all emails.?

The way I read Jerald¡¯s post is instead of creating a setting, create a new set of mailboxes.?

Let¡¯s say you have 3 mailboxes, Jack, Jill and Spot. You want to keep Jack¡¯s emails 6 months, Jill¡¯s 12 months, and Spot¡¯s only 3. So every six months you create a new mailbox for Jack, call it Jack1, move over the last 6 months then delete the mailbox Jack. Same with Jill and Spot at the appropriate times. Of course, it would be easier to alter the mailbox name first, then create an new mailbox with the old name. Then you would not have to change any rules you currently have. You would probably have to automate this process to make it efficient.?

I would think that archiving your mail regularly would be much simpler. Then make a suggestion to Apple to add the feature, and see if there are enough positive responses for them to create the feature.?

Brent ?

On my late 2012 Mac mini running 10.15.7?

On Apr 9, 2025, at 12:09 PM, John via <OceanCity@...> wrote:

On Apr 9, 2025, at 2:37?PM, Jerald Levinson via <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?
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