John, But then I'd have to remember to look at those mailboxes.
I thought I had the messages I want 'back" in a mailbox but apparently I've "lost the mail box but not the messages. They are just somewhere else. Probably in my mail library where ever that is. Anne On Apr 21, 2016, at 9:47 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Ann, > > Can you use mail “rules” to process your emails so they’ll go into the > mailbox you create? Once set up it has always ask me if I want to apply the > rules now to existing emails…yes, and all those meeting the criteria of the > rule are put into the appropriate mailbox and any future emails will > automatically go into the same folder. > > John > > > How to Set Up Apple Mail Rules > > <AppleMailRule.jpg> > Finished Bank Statement Rule. Screen shot courtesy of Coyote Moon, Inc. > Updated September 16, 2015. > > It's easy to create Apple Mail rules that tell the application how to process > incoming pieces of mail. > > Rules have two components: the condition and the action. Conditions are > guidelines for selecting the type of message an action will affect. You could > have a Mail rule whose condition looks for any mail from your friend Sean, > and whose action is to highlight the message, so you can more easily see it > in your inbox. > > Mail rules can do much more than simply find and highlight messages. They can > organize your mail; for example, they can recognize banking-related messages > and move them to your bank email folder. They can grab spam from recurring > senders and move it automatically to a Junk folder or the Trash. They can > also take a message and forward it to a different email address. > > There are currently 12 built-in actions available. If you know how to create > AppleScripts, Mail can also run AppleScripts to perform additional actions, > such as launch specific applications. > > In addition to creating simple rules, you can create compound rules that look > for multiple conditions before performing one or more actions. Mail's support > for compound rules allows you to create very sophisticated rules. > > In this Quick Tip, we'll create a compound rule that will recognize mail from > your credit card company and notify you that your monthly statement is ready > by highlighting the message in your inbox. > > The message we're interested in is sent from the alert service at Example > Bank, and has a 'From' address that ends in alert.examplebank.com. > > Because I receive various types of alerts from Example Bank, I'll need to > create a rule that filters messages based on the 'From' field as well as the > 'Subject' field. Using these two fields, I can differentiate all of the types > of alerts I receive. > > Launch Apple Mail > > Launch Mail by clicking the Mail icon in the Dock, or by double-clicking the > Mail application located at: /Applications/Mail/. > If you have a statement alert from your credit card company, select it so the > message is open in Mail. If a message is selected when you add a new rule, > Mail assumes that the message's 'From,' 'To,' and 'Subject' fields will > probably be used in the rule, and automatically fills the information in for > you. Having the message open also lets you see any specific text you may need > for the rule. > Add a Rule > > Select 'Preferences' from the Mail menu. > Click the 'Rules' button in the Preferences window that opens. > Click the ‘Add Rule’ button. > Fill in the 'Description' field. For this example, I will use ‘Example Bank > CC Statement’ as the description. > Add the First Condition > > Use the dropdown menu to set the ‘If’ statement to ‘All.' The 'If' statement > allows you to choose between two forms, 'If any' and 'If all.' The 'If' > statement is helpful when you have multiple conditions to test for, as in > this example, where we want to test both the 'From' and 'Subject' fields. If > you will only be testing for one condition, such as the 'From' field, the > 'If' statement doesn't matter, so you can leave it in its default state. > In the 'Conditions' section, just below the 'If' statement, select 'From' > from the left-hand dropdown menu. > In the 'Conditions' section, just below the 'If' statement, select 'Contains' > from the right-hand dropdown menu. > If you had a message from the credit card company open when you started > creating this rule, the 'Contains' field will be automatically filled in with > the appropriate 'From' email address. Otherwise, you will need to enter this > information manually. For this example, we will enter alert.examplebank.com > in the 'Contains' field. > Add the Second Condition > > Click the plus (+) button to the far right of the existing condition. > A second condition will be created. > In the second conditions section, select 'Subject' from the left-hand > dropdown menu. > In the second conditions section, select 'Contains' from the right-hand > dropdown menu. > If you had a message from the credit card company open when you started > creating this rule, the 'Contains' field will be automatically filled in with > the appropriate 'Subject' line. Otherwise, you will need to enter this > information manually. For this example, we will enter Example Bank Statement > in the 'Contains' field. > Add the Action to be Performed > > In the 'Actions' section, select 'Set Color' from the left-hand dropdown menu. > In the 'Actions' section, select 'Text' from the middle dropdown menu. > In the 'Actions' section, select 'Red' from the right-hand dropdown menu. > Click the ‘OK’ button to save your new rule. > Your new rule will be used for all subsequent messages you receive. If you > would like the new rule to process the current contents of your inbox, select > all of the messages in your inbox, then select 'Messages, Apply Rules' from > the Mail menu. > > Apple Mail rules are very versatile. You can create complex rules with > multiple conditions and multiple actions. You can also create multiple rules > that work together to process messages. Once you try Mail rules, you'll > wonder how you ever managed without them. > > > > > > > > >> On Apr 21, 2016, at 9:41 PM, Anne Cartwright <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have some files on my computer that are in Mail but not in a mailbox where >> I can find them. >> >> I would like to get them back into Mail proper in an appropriate mailbox. >> >> When I use spotlight to find one it shows up as Mail>34346.emix. Ho do I >> find them and can I safely move them back into Mail proper? >> >> Anne Cartwright >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: [email protected] >> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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