On 2 Sep 2015, at 12:20, John Cooper wrote:
Kearney Buskirk wrote:
Another beginning question: where to best place Mailboxes?
Mailmate Help “encourages the use of Smart Mailboxes”. If Smart
Mailboxes are used rather than Standard, aren’t my (actual rather
than
virtual) messages then left in my Inbox? If so, seems my Inbox would
get vast and unwieldy. In the past I’ve routed mail out of the
Inbox
into regular Mailboxes partly to keep the Inbox manageable…
I also have a number of server-side filters for exactly that reason. I
was an Inbox-Zero type before the invention of the term, and my work
requires me to access my mail without MailMate, or a Mac, for that
matter. So as a new MailMate user I had to struggle with the same
issue. I don't have the luxury of MailMate's smart mailboxes without
MailMate, and I can't stand to see a crowded Inbox.
I've never got rid of the server-side filters, but once I fully
yielded to MailMate's concept of preferring smart mailboxes, things
got easier for me when I was using MailMate. For me, the trick was to
create smart mailboxes that exactly match the contents of my most
important standard mailboxes, and then keep the Sources section
collapsed so that only the smart mailboxes appear. That helps avoid
the distraction of seeing an indicator for the same message in two
different sections. The smart mailboxes section stays expanded. I
group the smart mailboxes that only replicate standard mailboxes
together, and I use them alongside a wider set of truly smart
mailboxes with more complex criteria.
If you don't use server-side filters, of course, you'll want to set up
rules in your source Inbox to move your messages to the standard
mailboxes as you prefer.
The one downside is that certain actions in MailMate automatically
expand the Sources section, so that I have to continually close it
again. Other than that, this is the best method I've found.
Thanks, that’s very helpful.
How do you group the smart mailboxes?
Seems like this is a lot of work to get around MailMate not allowing
standard mailboxes at the top level. Otherwise I suppose the sources
could clicked to disclose their standard mailboxes. I’m not going to
use server-side filters.
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