Thanks so much to Glenn Parker and Bill Cole for their quick responses
(please see below) to my question. Your clear explanations were
invaluable to my learning how to create IMAP folders and to smoothing my
transition from a POP client to MailMate and IMAP. With great
appreciation for your skill and thoughtfulness, Ken
On 21 Dec 2019, at 13:01, Glenn Parker wrote:
MailMate’s smart folders are really just a clever ways to sort and
view your messages. They are, in effect, virtual folders that are only
visible within your local MailMate environment. However, MailMate is
an IMAP email client (instead of POP) and the IMAP system supports the
creation of real folders on the mail server side. Using IMAP folders,
you can change the organization of messages on the server, and the
folders will be accessible via any IMAP mail client, not just MailMate
(for example, if you read email with an IMAP-capable mobile app,
you’ll see these folders there as well).
To create an IMAP folder in MailMate, go to the “Sources” section
at the lower left of your main mail window, then right-click on your
IMAP account (probably the domain name of your email provider) and
select [New IMAP Mailbox in “YOUR-ACCOUNT”…] from the popup
menu. This will instantly create a new folder labeled “Unnamed” at
the bottom of your list of mail folders. Click on the name to rename
the folder, then drag the folder to reposition it at a suitable spot
in your list of folders. You can drag any existing message into (or
out of) this folder. It’s a real, permanent folder, which can also
have new “smart” folders created within it if you like.
You can create one or more rules to automatically move messages from
your INBOX as they are received directly into an IMAP folder. This
may make it easier to keep messages sorted correctly. You just need to
remember to check for new messages in your other IMAP folders. Once
you configure some INBOX rules, you can right-click on the INBOX
folder name, then select [Apply Rules of “INBOX”] to move existing
messages according to your rules.
Glenn P. Parker
glenn.par...@comcast.net
On 21 Dec 2019, at 14:04, Bill Cole wrote:
On 21 Dec 2019, at 11:22, Ken Pope wrote:
Have just transitioned from a pop mail client to MailMate.
The biggest part of that is switching from POP to IMAP, which is
designed with a radically different concept of how email is used. An
IMAP server is intended to be the home for your email and its
organization, the repository of "truth" for as many IMAP clients of
whatever flavor as you wish to use. This requires a change in how you
think about your mail.
Some IMAP clients, particularly ones which also do POP such as
Thunderbird or Apple Mail, blend the conceptual models of POP and IMAP
by supporting a hierarchy of real local mail folders that supplement
the folders on an IMAP server as a permanent organized store of
messages. MailMate does not: you have only a mailbox hierarchy on the
servers where you have accounts and virtual "smart" mailboxes that
only exist as MailMate assemblies of messages.
This is not really as limiting as it may seem at first. Because you DO
have the server-side mailbox hierarchy.
There are some large groups of emails relevant to my research that
defy my attempts to capture their characteristics within the smart
mailbox descriptors (diverse senders, content, headers, etc., within
each research project). I would like to create a set of
“non-smart” mailboxes and simply drag & drop each email into one
of those mailboxes whenever it arrives in my inbox & I’ve responded
to it. I’ve been unable to find out how to do this. Is it
possible in MailMate, and if so would someone let me know how to do
it (or where to find the instructions)?
Create them as IMAP mailboxes. To create one at the top level of an
IMAP account in MailMate, select the account in the "Sources" section
of the mailbox list and use the "Mailbox->New IMAP Mailbox in
<accountname>" menu command (also accessible by right-click.) You can
also create new IMAP mailboxes inside existing IMAP mailboxes,
building as complex a hierarchy as you want. For example, in my main
IMAP account I have 16 top-level mailboxes and another 226 within
those.
--
Bill Cole
b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
Not For Hire (currently)
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