What do you use for your mail? I assume Gmail doesn't do this server-side rules thing?
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 26, 2014, at 6:25 PM, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote: > > 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. 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