I'll chime in as another who rarely uses the RMB. You currently have: 40796 Messages 45 Message folders 44 Message Filters 6 Text Clippings 7 Signatures
and I check 9 different email accounts. I have a similar amount and variety as do you. SpamSieve is indispensable. Most of my filters are for categorizing mail to folders. I also have several archive folders and have the 'delete aged messages' script running via a cron job so that it hits at least daily, otherwise I'd have more mail in the database. I have PM set to check mail periodically throughout the day though I don't check PM more that hourly. I run on a PowerBook so PM is open for days on end. I work in the 3 pane view. After mail comes in and gets sorted I look through business stuff first. I get business related emails from at least 7 different sources. Here's where I could really use a smart folder. I get business contact information from at least 2 different advertisements that comes through and is filtered into their respective folders. I would really like to have a smart folder that would show me all the new stuff from either of these sources so I can respond to it. Additionally, my staff might respond to this email and I have them BCC me so I have a record. Showing this in the same 'smart folder' would be great. I absolutely can't do without the 'view unread only' and Mail.app's ability to create this in a smart folder is extremely effective. I would be very happy is PM could implement smart folders a la Mail.app. I heavily use AppleScripts. I do understand Wayne's sentiment to improve certain things like IMAP, but it would be nice to continue keeping use 'power' users happy, after all, it is PowerMail. I'm not really sure why a smart folder, which should have a different icon, need be any different than a regular folder in function. In other words, double click it and it opens in another window. Is that somehow not similar to incorporating smart folders into the RMB? Anyway, I do find it an interesting discussion and only serves to show that even though we all *love* working with PM; we can all use it in different ways. Andy -- Andy Fragen On Thu, Mar 23, 2006, Mikael Byström said: >Thanks for sharing your experiences. Would you care to describe your >workflow? What types of email do you receive and send? Business, mailing >lists, private? What are the volume of messages? >Do you also think that you would have no use for saveable searches in the >form of 'smart folders' á la the 'smart playlists' in iTunes or 'smart >folders' in Mail?
