On 4 Jul 2014, at 8:39, Gary Hull wrote:
MailMate has smart mailboxes. Gmail has filters. For all I know there may be mail clients with both. Essentially they are the same thing. A filter looks at an incoming message and does something to it. If that something involves putting it into a particular (virtual) mailbox, then it's the same as a smart mailbox.
Yes, the main difference is that filtering into mailboxes does not allow an email to exist in multiple mailboxes without making duplicates. Both smart mailboxes and filtering are useful features, but if possible then it is best to do filtering server-side.
Note that if you enable the experimental 2.0 features in the General preferences pane then all mailboxes (IMAP and smart mailboxes) have an additional pane in the mailbox editor (“Mailbox ▸ Edit Mailbox”) named “Rules”. This allows you to do filtering (moving messages) and other actions such a tagging or redirecting.
In other words, MailMate supports both smart mailboxes and filters, but it might be best to use Gmail filters for most purposes since it happens server-side.
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