Hello Cathy, Someone may correct me about this, but one of the ways in which VIP differs from smart mailboxes and rules is in the way they get treated under iOS 6, if you use an iPhone or iPad. Although you can create smart mailboxes that show up on your Mac, the fact that they are driven by actively updating rules applied by your Mac's mail program means that you can't have these smart mailboxes show up on your iPhone. So if I look under my iCloud or Mac-Access mail accounts on my iPhone, I can view regular mailboxes that I've created under those accounts, whose contents I've selected and placed into the mailboxes, but I can't view smart mailboxes that update by rules that are visible to me under the mail program on my Mac.
But on my iPhone I can go into my Mail program and designate some users as VIPs and also turn on VIP alerts, so when emails from those individuals arrive, I'll get alerts. This lets me know when those emails arrive, without having to go to the alert status of a text message. Maybe somebody else can explain how they use this feature. Sometimes questions aren't immediately answered because list members don't feel knowledgeable enough to contribute a solution -- not because they're not interested in the question or in helping out. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Mar 5, 2013, at 06:35, Cathy wrote: > hello, > > I am attempting to understand how VIP differs from rules and smart mailboxes. > from my understanding, rules place a message in a specified folder of your > choosing, while smart mailboxes save a copy of a message from the inbox in a > special folder. so what does VIP do differently? > thanks. > Cathy <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
