Hi Peter
Assuming you have (or can articulate) consistent rules about what goes
into which folder, smart mailboxes are (in my view) much better, because
I don’t much care for spending time filing. I only have these actual
mailboxes:
- inbox
- sent items
- junk (via spamsieve)
- archive
- sanelater (filter non-junk crud that I skim weekly using sanebox; I
have a keystroke programmed to train messages from my inbox to sanebox
when needed).
Everything else I find I can do by search and/or smart mailboxes
(essentially your ‘consistent rules’ from above become the smart
mailbox criteria). I have about a dozen smart mailboxes permanently set
up, and use the advanced search functionality continuously. Search has
a nifty ‘save’ feature, so you can set up the searches you want and
save them as smart mailboxes.
Once emails are older than a year or so I shift them to eaglefiler, to
keep down the volume that MM has to handle.
Searching the mail list archive will turn up multiple discussions on
this topic, but I think the consensus leans towards smart mailboxes and
searching.
cheers
Simon
On 15 Jun 2018, at 6:25, Peter Borsella wrote:
Hello, All,
I currently have hundreds of IMAP folders. Now that I have MailMate
I’m wondering, is it better to create IMAP folders, or, better to
create smart mailboxes every time I need a new collection of emails?
If this has already been debated I’d appreciate pointing me to the
discussion thread.
Thanks!
...Peter
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