Re: [MlMt] discussion topic: IMAP or smart mailbox?

2018-06-14 Thread Bill Cole
On 14 Jun 2018, at 17:29 (-0400), Randall Meadows wrote: (they claim that lots of messages in INBOX slows things down) That is not implausible. In fact, it makes a lot of sense. INBOX sees a lot of random-ish single-message churn, making it ideal for a file-per-message/directory-per-mailbox

Re: [MlMt] discussion topic: IMAP or smart mailbox?

2018-06-14 Thread Bill Cole
On 14 Jun 2018, at 16:25 (-0400), 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? It depends... on so

Re: [MlMt] discussion topic: IMAP or smart mailbox?

2018-06-14 Thread Randall Meadows
On 14 Jun 2018, at 14:25, Peter Borsella wrote: 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? I don't know if it's endemic to IMAP, or

Re: [MlMt] discussion topic: IMAP or smart mailbox?

2018-06-14 Thread Simon Kaplan
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 - sa

[MlMt] discussion topic: IMAP or smart mailbox?

2018-06-14 Thread Peter Borsella
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 discussio