I was using such moving as you describe when I was using Eudora.
Switching from POP to IMAP changed the paradigm. With Mailmate, I just
leave messages in the Inbox and instead of moving have smart mailboxes
to show those selected messages. For what you describe as Inbox, I have
a smart mailbox called incoming. Same end effect with no physical
movements and actually more control.
Robert
On 22 Nov 2021, at 23:32, Randall Gellens wrote:
I have some accounts where the Inbox rules are first a set of rules
that each check for a certain value in a header field (often, the
'List-ID' field), and if so, add a keyword to the message and move it
to a list-specific mailbox. Then there's a rule that, if the the 'To'
and 'Cc' header fields do not contain my address and the keyword added
by the earlier rules doesn't appear, then move the message to a
catch-all mailbox. The intent is that the messages left in the Inbox
were addressed to me, messages for certain lists I care about are
moved to their list-specific mailboxes, and everything else is in the
catch-all mailbox.
However, what ends up happening is that messages are moved to the
catch-all mailbox despite an earlier rule moving them to a
list-specific mailbox (as evidenced by the keyword having been added).
Are rules processed in an aggregate way, so that an earlier rule that
moves a message is counteracted by a later rule? And an earlier rule
that adds a keyword doesn't actually add it until after all rules have
finished, so that other rules can't test it?
--Randall
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