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– uSlackrMar 29, 2012 at 22:02
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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/…– PJTraillOct 31, 2016 at 15:52
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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.– PJTraillOct 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?– MorganMar 30, 2012 at 12:55
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@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
Standard rule for The Bat! For any exact or approximate age ("Yesterday" here is "from 2 to 1 days old")