On 18 Jan 2018, at 20:20 (-0500), Randall Gellens wrote:
Is there a more detailed manual somewhere? I can't figure out seemingly basic stuff.
The bundled help file (Help->MailMate Help) is reasonably good, and is pretty much identical to https://manual.mailmate-app.com/
Right now I'm trying to configure rules and I see Conditions, Submailboxes, and Rules.
Yes, and it is important to understand that the window you're looking at is either defining a "smart mailbox" (i.e. a dynamic collection of messages grouped together logically by MM) or is adding client-side behaviors to an IMAP ("source") mailbox. A smart mailbox editor window diffes in that it has a "Mailboxes" pane that tells MM which other mailboxes (both smart and source) define the universe of messages it examines.
Frankly, I don't get why adding "Conditions" to a source mailbox is a thing one can do, as the only effect it seems to have is to hide messages from view in MM's display of the mailbox which are in the actual IMAP mailbox on the server.
I'm guessing Submailboxes lets you create default rules for either moving mail or virtual mailboxes, but I haven't tried it.
No. Submailboxes lets you split a smart or source mailbox into virtual smart mailboxes based on a single simple criteria. For example, I use a system for creating ad hoc limited-purpose email addresses based on patterns that my mail server recognizes as aliases for my "real" email address (which I don't actually use...) Some mail for these get sorted during local delivery on the server into specific IMAP folders (e.g. for specific mailing lists) but those that make it through the sieve on the server are just dumped into a slushpile 'Tagged' mailbox because they match one of the ad hoc patterns. That mailbox is configured to have submailboxes for each unique value of the address part of the To header.
However, what is the difference between the Conditions section and the conditions created in the Rules section?
The Conditions pane controls which messages MM deems to be in the mailbox. For Source (i.e. IMAP) mailboxes this selects the subset you see of the messages which are actually in the mailbox. For Smart mailboxes, this is a subset of the messages in the mailbox set defined in the Mailboxes pane.
The Conditions section of a Rule determines which new (to the mailbox) messages the Rule acts upon.
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