I think that a smart mailbox is actually simpler to handle and more
reliable besides being more aligned with IMAP. The smart mailbox can
check incoming and outgoing mailboxes for mails that have any recipient
or sender be the specified email address (or more). Basically, the exact
conditions, Andrew, that you set up for your rule except that applied
for a smart mailbox with INBOX and SENT as source mailboxes. No need to
actually move physical messages.
On 27 Mar 2021, at 3:47, Andrew Buc wrote:
Making some headway with MM, and I’m taking Philip Paeps’s
suggestion of using FastMail's sieve features to file the mail on the
server when it arrives. Having said that, I think there’s something
to be said for learning at least a bit about MM rules.
20-odd years ago I was running an OS/2 (really!) mail client,
PMMail/2, that would let me apply rules to a message when it was sent.
For any given friend I’d set up a rule sending messages to or from
that friend to that friend’s dedicated folder. That way I could
easily see both sides of the correspondence with the friend.
Apple Mail doesn’t have this functionality but every so often I
apply my rules to my Sent folder, and my outgoing emails to my friends
end up in the appropriate folders. Incoming email, of course, are
already in the folders.
To see if I could do this in MM, I made a rule for a particular
friend—-screen shot attached with my friend’s personal info
blacked out.
If I highlight an email to my friend in the Sent Items folder and hit
cmd-opt-L, I get a “thunk” sound and no action. If I RMB on the
Sent Items folder and choose “Apply rules of Sent Items,” the
choices in the next menu (selected messages, all messages) are grayed
out.
I tried turning the rule off, having my friend send a test message,
turning the rule on, and invoking it with cmd-opt-L on the copy of the
message in the inbox. In that context the rule works.
Can what I’d like to do be done, and if so, how? I’m on build
5673. Thanks!
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