On 13 Apr 2020, at 19:18, Randall Meadows wrote:
So, I typically read all my mail based on the default Unread smart
mailboxes that MailMate ships with. I have the default sorting column
as Date Received, so that the messages are more-or-less in
chronological order. And the messages are grouped by thread.
As I read the messages, I delete most of them (saving only the few
needed for posterity). As I do this, often the messages then jump
around, because I just deleted the parent of a thread that was keeping
said thread in the correct chronological order, splitting the thread
into multiple parts; then when I delete the last message in that now
partial thread, I'm thrown into a completely different thread. But I
haven't finished the first one yet!
Anyone have suggestions on how to configure MM so as to avoid this
(admittedly high-order first-world) problem?
As with most MailMate use cases, the solution is Yet Another Smart
Mailbox...
What I do to evade the problem of "Unread" losing messages and their
threading is that I have a mailbox for "Recent Messages" which are less
than 3 days old in a subset of IMAP source mailboxes (you may prefer
"All Messages") and a "Recent Threads" mailbox drawing from the same
Sources, with a Condition of "Thread-Id" "is in" "Recent Threads"
"Thread-Id", with submailboxes by Source, using
"${#source.path.noinbox}" for names. This gives me full threads of
messages which don't lose eligibility based on read/unread status.
A similar approach that I like less well (but you may prefer) is an
"Unread Threads" mailbox where the sources are both "All Messages" and
"Deleted Messages," and the Condition is "Thread-Id" "is in" "Unread"
"Thread-Id". This mailbox does have some lability as messages are read,
but messages and their threading only vanish when all messages in a
thread have been read, rather than when each message is read and/or
deleted.
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Bill Cole
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(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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