I think I’ve succeeded.
Each Smart Mailbox is set to show contents of All Messages mailbox that
match criteria (usually “Subject Contains […]”).
Configure Inbox to show contents of All Messages mailbox that do not
match criteria of Smart Mailboxes created above.
It would be nice—in a UI kind of way—to be able to make the All
Messages mailbox invisible, as an option. I mean, once you’ve set up
all your Smart Mailboxes, when do you really need to look in it? That
is, if you’re using the Inbox as your main receptacle for sorted,
incoming mail, as I have.
Thank you to all who contributed to this thread and helped me learn a
little more about MM. I feel I’ve only scratched the surface of it’s
versatility and power.
Cheers,
Dave
less-a-noob
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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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