Re: Mail.app -- Smart Folders
- From: see_signature@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jon)
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 09:04:05 +0300
Pratik <prpandey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, I have a question about the Mail.app program on OSX.
I currently have one e-mail account (which is all I need) set up to
work with my Mail.app. Now, I have a few Smart Folders, which works
perfectly. My question is:
Is there a way when I receive a message, it will check to see if it's
from @example.com and move it into the Smart Folder dedicated for
emails from @example.com, and just show up as (1) new message for that
smart folder?
I think you may be misunderstanding the concept of Smart Folders.
Forgive me if I'm wrong. A Smart Folder (SF) is not a real folder
(container) at all. It is simply a convenient way to represent what is
in effect a permament search. Its content is the result of that search
at any given time. Messages are not moved into a SF because the SF is
not really a container, just a selection (as from a database). Any
message shown in a SF physically has to be in a real folder somewhere,
e.g., in your Inbox or any other non-smart folder/mailbox you create.
What the SF does is "search for all messagesw matching <criteria> and
list them here". That means that an unread message in your Inbox that
matches the criteria will show up as an unread message in that SF as
well, so that it may appear that there are two - one in the Inbox and
another, identical, in the SF. As you will have noticed, reading it in
either place removes the "Unread" mark from both, because it is in fact
the same message shown twice.
Note also that you can have overlapping SFs, e.g., SF(1): Show all
messages from <myfriend>@domain.com and SF(2): Show all messages
containing <subject> in its Subject line. Now when <myfriend> writes you
a message on <subject>, the message will show up in both - plus the
Inbox. When you reply, it will show up in Sent and in both SFs (provded
you checked "Include Sent Messages" when you created or edited the SF).
That is the way it should be; that way you can "file" messages under
more than one heading, which is often very useful.
PS: If you want to physically move messages to a specific folder, which
I tend to do for specific types of messages, e.g., mailing lists, then
according to the above, you need to create a static mailbox (which is a
real folder/container) and make a Rule to move the message there when it
arrives. See Mail > Preferences > Rules.
--
/Jon
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