On Jun 9, 2010, at 9:11 PM, Macs R We wrote: > > On Jun 9, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Daniel Israel wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> Trying to figure out how to do a couple things in the mail application and I >> was hoping someone might have some ideas.... >> >> 1. When I get spam, I mark it as junk mail. however, it seems that all it >> does is send the message to the Junk Mail folder. Does it do anything with >> it in terms of matching it to future messages? > > There were plenty of subtle and less subtle implications in the promotional > stuff that introduced Mail that that was in fact the case, but I'm pretty > sure they were just blowing smoke. > >> If not, is there some way to easily mark a sender as "Blocked" and their >> messages always go to junk? > > Not unless you want to script one. You have to manually add a rule. Mail > will give you some small help, in that it will prefill the choices for > "sender is," "any recipient is," etc. with the values from the piece of mail > that is currently chosen. > >> 2. I just MailSteward to archive mail. Works great. Since I have an >> archive, I have no need to keep mail that's really old in my folders, it >> just takes up space. Is there some way to have Mail automatically remove >> messages more than XXX days old? > > You can have mail IDENTIFY those messages by creating a smart mailbox with > the appropriate selection criteria. You can MANUALLY delete all those > messages any time you want. For AUTOMATICALLY, you'll have to script, but it > would be a much easier script.
I'm not so worried about a complicated script (I'm a programmer). Problem is, I'm pretty new to the Mac, but been using Windows/Unix/Linux stuff for years, so most of my problems are of the "How do I do this on my Mac?" variety. Case in point... I didn't even know I could write a script! That's different!! But I tend to avoid Smart mailboxes just because my volume of mail is really high and it slows things down. This might be a point to revisit that. Thanks! -D. Israel [email protected] http://www.customcodebydan.com AIM: JudoDanIzz If a dozen smart, successful people who've achieved something great are all giving the same advice, take it.
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