Getting mail to automatically move messages out of inbox

Hi,
I'm not that great at keeping my inbox organised and I wondered if there is a way to get Mail to automatically move messages from my inbox to another folder when they are over a certain number of days old? I've tried rules, but learnt that doesn't work because it only applies to incoming messages, a smart mail box but that does move the messages but collects them. I also tried to do an automator workflow but can't find an action to move messages?
I'm not tech-savy enough to start writing scripts and I wondered if anyone knew of a simple solution.
I'm using mail v4.5 and OSX 10.6.8
Many thanks
James

Hi Uri,
I think it's not possible using standard XI mail adapter (settings do not provide any filtering options), and I'm even not sure POP3 or IMAP allow you to pull specific msgs according to selection criterias (I may be wrong) ... So if one of this protocol allows it, I think you'll have to go for a custom mail adapter that will fulfill your need !
Otherwise (and this is what we've done), you can pull all msgs, route them according to its attributes (sender, subject, recipient) to the corresponding targets and when XI is not able to deal with some msgs, ignore them (in the rcv determination, select the corresponding option so no error is raised when recv det does not succeed) ...
Rgds
Chris

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