On 28 Dec 2016, at 1:43, Dave C wrote:
New user here…
Welcome.
I’ve got the hang of smart folders and the ones I’ve created now
contain messages from mail lists (I’m subscribed to several).
My goal is to have an Inbox that has none of these mail list messages
and only contains the remainder of the day’s mail, mostly personal
mail and junk.
I understand that the purpose of smart folders is to mirror messages
to those folders without actually moving them. How can I achieve my
goal of having the Inbox (or maybe another smart folder named
“MyInbox”?) not contain the messages that are visible in the smart
folders?
Any suggestions?
Well, INBOX is not a smart folder, so I'm not sure you can do what
you're asking here without actually moving some messages somewhere; if a
message is in INBOX, it's going to show in INBOX, regardless of whether
it's also showing in some other smart mailbox. Perhaps someone smarter
than I will correct me, but I think you'll have to move messages out of
the INBOX in order to achieve what you're asking for here.
If you want to go the "MyInbox" route, you can create a smart mailbox
that includes messages from any specific mailbox (like INBOX) but
excludes mailing list messages.
Personally, I think it's easier and more logical to move messages to
context-specific mailboxes, and then have a smart mailbox that shows me
unread messages in those other mailboxes; but then I've been doing that
since LONG before "smart mailboxes" were a thing, and old habits die
hard...
BTW, I don't know about other mail hosts, but Dreamhost requires me to
trim messages out of my INBOX "for performance reasons"; if that's
really a thing, you may want to consider moving messages away from the
INBOX anyway.
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