Hi Martin,
You don't mention what Mail program or OS you are using so I'm
assuming Apple Mail in Leopard or Snow Leopard.
In Apple Mail, I have Rules set for approx. 50 Mail Boxes, with
Multiple conditions and Actions. So all my important emails are
immediately in the correct mail boxes.
I also use Notes & To Do Items in Apple Mail.
I would be in a complete mess if I didn't use Rules & Notes & To Do
Items ;-)
Extract below taken from "Take Control of Apple Mail in
Leopard" (still applies to Mail in Snow Leopard):
Automate Mail With Rules:
Mail applies rules (sometimes called filters) automatically to
incoming messages. Among other things, rules can highlight messages or
move them to specific mailboxes based on criteria like the name of the
sender or the nature of the message content. For example, you can sort
messages from mailing lists into a mailbox you only check
when you have time, while highlighting messages from your boss in a
special color.
Notes:
Notes can hold any sort of information (styled text, graphics, and so
on) and are automatically stored in a special mailbox without your
having to actually mail yourself a message; you can edit these notes
whenever you want.
Notes behave just like regular messages for the purposes of searching
and smart mailboxes.
End of Extract:
A couple of links that might help you understand Apple Mail & what it
can do:
This is an old article but still applies to Smart Mailbox:
<http://www.macworld.com/article/46639/2005/09/octworkingmac.html>
<http://email.about.com/od/macosxmailtips/Mac_OS_X_Mail_Tips_Tricks_and_Secrets.htm
>
<http://www.macworld.com/article/134932/2008/08/mailrules.html?lsrc=mwhints
>
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard
On 23/10/2009, at 12:33 PM, Neil Houghton wrote:
Hi Martin,
In Entourage, I just use “rules” - I set up folders (and sub-folders
where appropriate) and just set-up rules to file as appropriate – eg:
If “from” is *...@acme.com, move to folder “acme” (same with “to” *...@acme.com
)
The mail is filed even before I read it - so at a glance I can see
which unread mail is in an “important” folder and which can be
looked at later.
I’m sure Mail must have a similar feature/tool to do this.
Cheers
Neil
--
Neil R. Houghton
Albany, Western Australia
Tel: +61 8 9841 6063
Email: n...@possumology.com
on 22/10/09 7:51 PM, Martin Sulkowski at martin6...@live.com wrote:
I'm getting more and more into trouble to keep my e-mails organised.
Is there a program available that could have a file called customer
and when I need to send him or a supplier an e-mail related to his
job ,that this e-mail is automatically in his file.The same for
incoming e-mails related to this job.
What are you guys using who use e-mail a lot?
Will Bento do the job?
Thanks Martin
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