Re: [MlMt] include contents of one smart mailbox in another

2020-11-11 Thread Shoshanna Green
On 10 Nov 2020, at 16:06, Martin S Taylor wrote: The workaround I use is to define a third smart (dummy) mailbox, C. Then: C is defined to contain everything which meets [set of other conditions] A is defined to contain messages which are in *any* of the mailboxes: B or C. Thanks, Martin! (

Re: [MlMt] include contents of one smart mailbox in another

2020-11-11 Thread Martin S Taylor
On 11 Nov 2020, at 19:10, Bill Cole wrote: Create mailbox C with all of those other conditions. Create mailbox A which includes all messages in B and all in C, i.e. with B and C as sources and no conditions. That's what I just said! MST ___ mai

Re: [MlMt] include contents of one smart mailbox in another

2020-11-11 Thread Bill Cole
On 10 Nov 2020, at 15:43, Shoshanna Green wrote: Setting B as a source mailbox for A would mean that A's conditions would be applied to messages in B and the messages that meet them would be included in A, but messages in B that do not meet them wouldn't be. What I want is to define A with a n

Re: [MlMt] include contents of one smart mailbox in another

2020-11-10 Thread Martin S Taylor
Shoshanna: On 10 Nov 2020, at 20:43, Shoshanna Green wrote: What I want is to define A with a nonexclusive OR: A's conditions need to be along the lines of ANY OF: - is contained in B - [set of other conditions] I've had this problem, too, and it is awkward, isn't it? You'd think you cou

Re: [MlMt] include contents of one smart mailbox in another

2020-11-10 Thread Shoshanna Green
Setting B as a source mailbox for A would mean that A's conditions would be applied to messages in B and the messages that meet them would be included in A, but messages in B that do not meet them wouldn't be. What I want is to define A with a nonexclusive OR: A's conditions need to be along th

Re: [MlMt] include contents of one smart mailbox in another

2020-11-10 Thread Robert Brenstein
What stops you from setting mailbox B as the source for mailbox A? If you do that, then the conditions you set for A apply only to mails that are shown in B. You can have multiple source mailboxes for smart mailboxes, those being either true mailboxes, combo mailboxes or smart mailboxes. On 10

[MlMt] include contents of one smart mailbox in another

2020-11-10 Thread Shoshanna Green
Is it possible to set up a condition for smart mailbox A that will catch all messages that are in smart mailbox B, without just copying all the conditions for B over to A? Copying them over requires manually keeping the two sets of conditions identical; if I make a change to B I have to remembe