On 28 Dec 2016, at 18:00, Bill Cole wrote:
On 28 Dec 2016, at 3:43, Dave C wrote:
New user here…
I’ve got the hang of smart folders and the ones I’ve created now
contain messages from mail lists (I’m subscribed to several).
My goal is to have an Inbox that has none of these mail list messages
and only contains the remainder of the day’s mail, mostly personal
mail and junk.
I understand that the purpose of smart folders is to mirror messages
to those folders without actually moving them. How can I achieve my
goal of having the Inbox (or maybe another smart folder named
“MyInbox”?) not contain the messages that are visible in the
smart folders?
Any suggestions?
Create actual distinct IMAP folders for each mailing list and add
rules to the INBOX to move list messages to the right folders.
Alternatively, just create one IMAP folder for all the list mail, a
rule to move all list mail there, and have MM split the display of
that IMAP folder into subfolders by mailing list.
OR, use your existing list-wise smart folders: add rules to them that
move all new messages to other IMAP folders, either one per list or
one for all lists.
OR, create a new smart mailbox whose Mailboxes selection is "All of (
INBOX, None of ( all of your mailing lists smart mailboxes ))"
My personal preference is to read most of my messages from the Inbox,
then move them to where I want to save them. I did this with Eudora by
having manual-only filters to my regular destination mailboxes. Once
read (in the Inbox) I would delete if not wanted, trigger a manual
filter, or drag to where I wanted it. On moving to Mail.app that reduced
to delete or drag. It looks like I should do better with MailMate, but
I’m still working on it.
I’m trying a set of Inbox filters that match on the list ID in
Subject, then on being read, then on being older than one day (to avoid
messages disappearing before i’m finished). It’s not immediate of
course, but it may be a step nearer. Sometimes it works but it doesn’t
always.
David
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