Pegasus Mail & Mercury

Hello!

There are two filtering options to check the date or the age of a message. Such a rule may be useful even to find a future date.

Some time ago, I tried hwo to set up such a rule. If I recall correctly, I created a filtering rule based on the message date and entered negative values for the "Between"-settings (you can find that in the "Edit a rule based on the message date"-window).
"Between [-2] and [-3650] days old" may help you filter out the suspicious messages. The date specified in a message has to be more than two days later than today in order to make the rule trigger, and the rule catches all messages whose date is set anywhere in the next ten years.

As far as I remember, negative values in a filtering rule based on the message age did not work.

As I said, I am recalling what I tried some years ago. I am not sure whether this still works the same way in the current version, nor do I know whether my weak brain really helps me here. *g* However, I hope the main point is obvious: negative values in a Message date rule. Just try it.

EDIT: When writing my post, I was not aware of the forum the original question was posted in. I answered the question with Pegasus Mail in mind; however, the original question was asked in the Mercury forum. As I do not use Mercury, I am not sure whether there are similar filtering rules as described above for Pegasus Mail. I am sorry if this causes any confusion. If there IS a similar rule for Mercury, you may want to try that.