Allow a time delay for Message Filters

[dan268]

I like to keep many important emails in the Local Folder.  But, I want to keep them in my inbox to view on various devices for a while, so I can't just move them on receipt.  I currently do this with manually run message filters, but I have more than 30, and each has to be be individually run.  It takes a lot of time.

As a alternate, if there were a choice to have a filter run automatically after a time delay from receipt, 14 days, for example, it would really help make it easier to keep my inbox manageable.  This feature would also be helpful in deleting "useful" ads (e.g. Target, JC Penny)

[Jon]

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[MattAuSupport]

I have no idea what your filter criteria is,  but there is an age in days criteria that can be used on each "getting new mail" that will be met only once if you move the message out of the inbox when the condition is met.  Say when it is 14 days old.

[dan268]

Thank you for pointing out a feature of the mail filters that I wasn't aware of, but should have been.  But to use this you have to use the "match all", so only one email address per filter is allowed.  I see a problem with this because most of my manually run filters use the "match any" because there are many emails of a given type, (The filter "Utilities" for example contains water, gas, electricity, cable TV, etc) plus most companies use multiple types of email address (e. g. @domain.com, @Something.domain.com, @otherdomain.other). I'm sure you are aware that using something like "domain.com" is dangerous, as a scammer might take out "sdomain.com" and that will match.  So I'd have to create an individual filter for each possible email address type.  That would require over a hundred filters in my case.

This could be fixed with some sort of "and" & "or" functions in the filter instead of the "match all" & "match any".

However if I have to create a hundred individual filters, I will.