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  1. @invalid-email-address Anonymous created this gist Jan 8, 2017.
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    function gmailAutoarchive() {

    var delayDays = 2; // will only impact emails more than 48h old
    var maxDate = new Date();
    maxDate.setDate(maxDate.getDate()-delayDays); // what was the date at that time?

    // Get all the threads labelled 'autoarchive'
    var label = GmailApp.getUserLabelByName("autoarchive");
    var threads = label.getThreads(0, 400);

    // we archive all the threads if they're unread AND older than the limit we set in delayDays
    for (var i = 0; i < threads.length; i++) {
    if (threads[i].getLastMessageDate()<maxDate)
    {
    threads[i].moveToArchive();
    }
    }
    }