Counting, sorting, archiving, and deleting e-mails and threads
We have seen in the earlier examples that it is quite easy to manipulate threads and messages with regard to labels.
Once we get a thread object, we can do what we want with it. A quick look at the documentation shows the many methods available but as I have already mentioned, these operations might take some time and we may easily face issues with the maximum execution time limit of five minutes.
Execution time versus time limit
The solution to this is to proceed with relatively small bunches of threads. A careful approach is to treat 100 threads at a time and continue as long as we need or until it is finished.
Google Apps Script has all the tools we need:
- A programmable time trigger ...
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