Hi there, Try making several rules in one. I have all of the MacVisionary emails go into one mailbox; IPhones into another and another for my Motorola Cell phone list serve.
When you make a rule, choose "Subject contains" and then pick something that usually appears in the subject. Then add a From field with different criteria. The combination usually works. It sometimes takes me three or four tries before I get all of the emails into the right mailbox. b Tom Frank vermont...@gmail.com On Jul 8, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Eliza Cooper wrote: > > 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 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
