To answer the original poster's question, I have experienced a number of annoyances in Mail under mavericks, but smart mailboxes are not one. For me they are working as well as they always have. I like smart mailboxes a lot, and for business purposes they really help me to keep track of different projects easily. For example, I have a smart mailbox for each book and tutorial I have produced, where I keep purchase records and confirmation emails. It makes it easy for me to see who has purchased what, and if I need to, to contact everyone who purchased a product at once. Very nifty. I don't think smart mailboxes are the best tool for putting messages from lists into a specific folder though. As someone else already pointed out, if you use a smart mailbox for this, the messages not only end up in the smart mailbox, but they also stay in your Inbox. I used to use mail rules to move email from specific lists into specific folders and that worked really well. Now that I have an accessible iMap provider, I use server-side rules to do this job, the advantage being that if I'm checking mail on an iThing, the mail appears in the correct folder even if Mail on the Mac isn't running, since the rules are server side. Jonathan Mosen Mosen Consulting Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training http://Mosen.org
On 23/08/2014, at 7:28 am, Eric Oyen <eric.o...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thats entirely the purpose of smart mail boxes. Allows you to organize > depending on type (such as email address, subject or any of a number of other > things). Because of the number of mailing lists I am on, I simply have a > smart mailbox for each one. I also have an unread messages smart mailbox that > excludes messages to the others, this way, I can look for uncategorized mail > from friends. So far, this has made my life in email a lot easier to deal > with. You do have to be careful about what criteria > that you use. The wrong ones can lead to a lot of confusion. > > Anyway, thats how I use smart mail boxes. > > -eric > > > On Aug 22, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Matt Dierckens wrote: > >> I don't think so. I believe it just groups message together. >> Matt Dierckens >> Macintosh Trainer >> Blind Access Training >> www.blindaccesstraining.com >> 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3 >> Work email:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com >> Personal email: matt.dierck...@gmail.com >> >> On Aug 22, 2014, at 10:30, Kawal Gucukoglu <kgli...@icloud.com> wrote: >> >>> So does smart box behave like a VIP box? I don't understand why you'd want >>> a smart box. Please explain. >>> >>> Kawal. >>> >>>> On 22 Aug 2014, at 01:11 pm, Matt Dierckens <matt.dierck...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> With a smart mailbox, you can have certain rules set up. I have a smart >>>> mailbox for all mac visionaries message to go to the smart mailbox called >>>> mac visionaries. The only problem, all the messages still show up in your >>>> inbox. So if you delete a message from the inbox, you lose it from the >>>> smart mailbox. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
