Mail rule options ...

Hi,
In Mail, I have a rule for an intelligent mailbox that selects all email that are older than 365 days and that are in the Trash.
For this rule to work, why do I have to also check the option below the rule definition that ask to include messages that are in the Trash (see picture below) ? Since the rule specifies that the message have to be in the Trash, why do I have to also check that option ?
Can comeone help me with this one ?
Regards.
Robert Lespérance

David Gimeno Gost wrote:
Mail doesn’t provide that functionality, but you may set up a smart mailbox that displays the messages to be deleted, then manually delete whatever shows up there every once in a while.
Yeah, that's what I figured.
Another option is writing an AppleScript and selecting the "Run AppleScript" rule option, but I'm a) not 100% it's even possible, and b) rusty on AppleScript.

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