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I've never seen an email client that I could easily create a rule to do something like "Move messages from yesterday to a folder?" Is there some esoteric reason why this would be difficult? I know I can easily create rules around specific dates, but that isn't the same thing by a long shot; am I missing something? In Outlook 2010 I can create search folders that do sort of this type of thing, but you can't create rules around a search folder... seems like either I am missing something major, or this is terribly short-sided.

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  • I don't think there is a real answer for this. Anything is possible in code. Why developers havent
    – uSlackr
    Mar 29, 2012 at 22:02
  • A shame this is closed; I take it to mean a client which provides this possibility without any scripting/programming, i.e. just by filling in GUI dialogues. Some cases (deletion) are handled in superuser.com/questions/549565/… and superuser.com/questions/1105603/…
    – PJTraill
    Oct 31, 2016 at 15:52
  • If you want to move after n days, you could, as a compromise, copy immediately and delete after n days, as explained in the answers to the questions referred to in my previous comment.
    – PJTraill
    Oct 31, 2016 at 16:07

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Pretty sure you can do this with Outlook + VBA script. In Thunderbird, there is a filter that selects emails by their age (in days) and also a filter action that lets you move filtered messages to a specified folder.

These are just the 2 most popular email clients, but this is definitely possible with other clients as well.

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  • Ah my mistake on Thunderbird... I rarely use it, but I thought I remembered it not having the ability. Doesn't it seem odd thought that you would have to go through the trouble of scripting for this functionality in Outlook?
    – Morgan
    Mar 30, 2012 at 12:55
  • @Morgan: Sorta. It's not a super common functionality (you can't do it with Gmail; not sure about Live or Yahoo! mail), but it's definitely a useful filter to have. If I had it my way, it'd be on all clients. But then if I had it my way, all clients would probably get pretty bloated. =P Mar 30, 2012 at 13:16
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Standard rule for The Bat! For any exact or approximate age ("Yesterday" here is "from 2 to 1 days old")

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