How are your Rules set up and organized? As stated in the MM Help and the full
Manual, “You can add rules to any mailbox. Each rule is a set of conditions and
a set of actions. Rules are only triggered when a message is added to a mailbox
which most often happens when a new message arrives in an account. You can
apply rules to the selected messages of a mailbox by using “Mailbox ▸ Apply
Rules”.
In my case however, I create each rule as it’s own Smart Mailbox and use the
settings (Mailbox, Conditions, Rules) tabs within it to apply the rule to
whatever Source Mailbox is needed to be acted upon by the rule.
E.G. an action to delete certain messages can be built to apply to one or more
Source Mailbox accounts in this way (not just one) and changed with the Rule’s
settings.
Also I nest all Rules in Smart Mailboxes within the All Message
Filters>ALL/Junk/Deleted folders where the messages are ‘picked’. Have a look
[at these default folders’ organizational
screenshot](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UgI_b04tU2BIBFXNoXPJ8c3nrc6l0ioY&usp=drive_fs)
on my G-Drive. You can see the nesting there.
As others have explained, that Smart Mailbox Rule can be set by its own folder
selection and conditions tabs to create a rule action that then evaluated for
each email as it arrives in the rule’s mailbox. Don’t forget to label the Smart
Mailbox Rule to keep it straight.
**Another example**: One of my server accounts identifies a set of emails
sorting them as spam, then saving them to a “spam” mailbox outside of local
control. A MailMate rule moves these to a different Junk Mailbox where further
processing is done to delete them (with other junk mail) in a given time frame.
I found it easier to organize the rule in the same way - standalone.
Respectfully,
Henry Seiden
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Techworks Pro Co.
E: infotechworksprocom
W: http://techworkspro.com
On 15 Mar 2025, at 22:48, Randy Abbott wrote:
> Is there a way to import/export a rule from one mailbox to another? Thank
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