At the moment, I have all my domains hosted with DreamHost and am very happy 
with them.
iCloud will also do server side rules.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
http://Mosen.org

On 27/08/2014, at 12:24 pm, Joe Quinn <jdawg1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> What do you use for your mail? I assume Gmail doesn't do this  server-side 
> rules thing?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Aug 26, 2014, at 6:25 PM, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org> wrote:
> 
>> To answer the original poster's question, I have experienced a number of 
>> annoyances in Mail under mavericks, but smart mailboxes are not one. For me 
>> they are working as well as they always have.
>> I like smart mailboxes a lot, and for business purposes they really help me 
>> to keep track of different projects easily. For example, I have a smart 
>> mailbox for each book and tutorial I have produced, where I keep purchase 
>> records and confirmation emails. It makes it easy for me to see who has 
>> purchased what, and if I need to, to contact everyone who purchased a 
>> product at once. Very nifty.
>> I don't think smart mailboxes are the best tool for putting messages from 
>> lists into a specific folder though. As someone else already pointed out, if 
>> you use a smart mailbox for this, the messages not only end up in the smart 
>> mailbox, but they also stay in your Inbox. I used to use mail rules to move 
>> email from specific lists into specific folders and that worked really well. 
>> Now that I have an accessible iMap provider, I use server-side rules to do 
>> this job, the advantage being that if I'm checking mail on an iThing, the 
>> mail appears in the correct folder even if Mail on the Mac isn't running, 
>> since the rules are server side.
>> Jonathan Mosen
>> Mosen Consulting
>> Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
>> http://Mosen.org
>> 
>> On 23/08/2014, at 7:28 am, Eric Oyen <eric.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Thats entirely the purpose of smart mail boxes. Allows you to organize 
>>> depending on type (such as email address, subject or any of a number of 
>>> other things). Because of the number of mailing lists I am on, I simply 
>>> have a smart mailbox for each one. I also have an unread messages smart 
>>> mailbox that excludes messages to the others, this way, I can look for 
>>> uncategorized mail from friends. So far, this has made my life in email a 
>>> lot easier to deal with. You do have to be careful about what criteria
>>> that you use. The wrong ones can lead to a lot of confusion.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, thats how I use smart mail boxes.
>>> 
>>> -eric
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Aug 22, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Matt Dierckens wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I don't think so. I believe it just groups message together.
>>>> Matt Dierckens
>>>> Macintosh Trainer
>>>> Blind Access Training
>>>> www.blindaccesstraining.com
>>>> 1-877-774-7670 ext. 3
>>>> Work email:matt...@blindaccesstraining.com
>>>> Personal email: matt.dierck...@gmail.com
>>>> 
>>>> On Aug 22, 2014, at 10:30, Kawal Gucukoglu <kgli...@icloud.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> So does smart box behave like a VIP box? I don't understand why you'd 
>>>>> want a smart box. Please explain.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Kawal.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 22 Aug 2014, at 01:11 pm, Matt Dierckens <matt.dierck...@gmail.com> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> With a smart mailbox, you can have certain rules set up. I have a smart 
>>>>>> mailbox for all mac visionaries message to go to the smart mailbox 
>>>>>> called mac visionaries. The only problem, all the messages still show up 
>>>>>> in your inbox. So if you delete a message from the inbox, you lose it 
>>>>>> from the smart mailbox.
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