Also, I tried just making a rule for putting everything list-related
in a separate regular mailbox, and nothing went there, either. Am I
doomed to have a clogged inbox?
Eliza
On Jul 8, 2009, at 4:58 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Ok, call me stupid if you want, but i've never gotten the hang of
> everything "smart" on the Mac. When you create a "smart" mailbox, you
> are given a lot of criteria for what should be shown in that mailbox,
> right? If so, there shouldn't be any need for also making a rule with
> the same searching criteria to filter mails to a smart mail box that
> also has these rules, right? Or what am i missing here?
> I have also tried to make smart mailboxes for everything mac related,
> but my rules aren't good enough apparently because nothing comes
> through as it should. Either nothing goes in the smart box, or too
> much unrelated goes there, so i've given up this smart thing
> alltogether, for me, it just doesn't work.
> /Krister
>
>
> 7 jul 2009 kl. 21.29 skrev Simon Cavendish:
>
>>
>> Dear Eliza,
>>
>> You set rules under Mail preferences which you access either through
>> the menu bar under Mail, or by using the shortcut key command+comma.
>> Then by interacting with the toolbar you can choose rules. In there,
>> provided you have already created a mailbox to which you have given
>> the names, you can set up the rule, like for isntance, if a mail
>> comes
>> from the address in To field, move it to the mailbox name. Hope this
>> helps. With best wishes, Simon
>> On 7 Jul 2009, at 20:18, Eliza Cooper wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi James,
>>> Where can I find instructions for setting up rules?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eliza
>>>
>>> On Jul 7, 2009, at 2:56 PM, James & Nash wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Eliza,
>>>>
>>>> I had the same issue. I got around this by just creating a normal
>>>> mailbox
>>>> and once I set up the rules all the messages went to the correct
>>>> mailbox
>>>> without any trouble. I hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>> Take care
>>>>
>>>> James
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Eliza Cooper" <eliza.l.coo...@gmail.com>
>>>> To: "macvisionaries" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 7:53 PM
>>>> Subject: smart mailbox question
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi list,
>>>>> I created a smart mailbox for all of the messages in this list,
>>>>> but
>>>>> apparently I'm not understanding something correctly. Once you
>>>>> create
>>>>> the mailbox and specify which messages should go there, shouldn't
>>>>> all
>>>>> future messages go there? The are not doing so.
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Eliza
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
>>>
>
>
> >
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