Hello: Thanks for the information. I'd like, for example, all of the messages from John Smith to disappear from th inbox using message rules. How do I do this? On Dec 17, 2014, at 7:36 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote:
> This depends on what you want. If you want all the messages from John Smith > to be available in one place but also to read them from your Inbox than a > Smart Mailbox is the way to go. > > If you want all the messages from John Smith to disappear from the Inbox and > Appear in their own folder than you should use rules. > > A smart mailbox is just a stored search function. It can search one or more > mailboxes for the anything that you can search from in the Mail bulbar. The > only difference is that you don’t have to recreate the search. > > These smart Mailboxes or folders are also available in iTunes as Smart > PlayLists (Create a random playlist of all songs I have not skipped more than > 5 times from the Beatles with no more than 50 minutes of playtime for > example. > > In the finder they are called smart folders. > > Best wishes, > > Jonathan > > > > On Dec 16, 2014, at 15:34, Christopher Hallsworth <challswor...@icloud.com> > wrote: > >> Isn't what smart mailboxes can do? Creates a mailbox based on criteria you >> choose? >> >> On 16/12/2014 13:41, ernest mccullough wrote: >>> Hello: >>> I used to know how to create a message so that messages from a specific >>> person can go to it's own mailbox but I forgot how to do it, as I haven't >>> used my mac in a while. I attempted to do it lat night, it kept saying >>> create message rules but when I pressed enter, it went back to the message >>> itself. Any help would be greatly appreciated. >>> Thanks. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
