[MlMt] How to reliably move incoming messages to separate mailboxes?

[Henry Seiden]

Hi Pierre,

Given your experience, I can see this working if for example, you move 
message within MailMate only. I **usually** move them that way, but like 
not always to the Archive Mailbox per account. Also this not a “Smart 
Mailbox”.

So it doesn’t seem to be worthwhile trying, unless there is a rule to 
first move a message to a temporary mailbox, then apply the setting(s) 
desired, E.G. color, then move it back to the original place. It may get 
the setting wiped out at that point anyway.

So, in short while it’s nice to colorize the email by a color code 
similar to what was applied to the icon of a standard mailbox (which 
still works, BTW), but no longer apparently, to the message contents 
itself.

Mail does seem to allow the contents to be colored - both the background 
and characters when placed in the spam folders. How do I know this, you 
may ask? SpamSieve uses the techniques of coloration to apply it to 
aspects of the email (subject) IN THE MESSAGE LIST. That coloration is 
NOT reflected in the same message and the same folder in MM however.

Just giving some background for your issue. Frankly, the coloration 
mentioned here is not of great enough interest to pursue it further for 
me. Seems like it could be done, but don’t know the reasoning not the 
the issues. Just providing some hints for your background study. Good 
Luck.


Respectfully,

Henry Seiden
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On 8 Nov 2023, at 13:02, Pierre Igot wrote:

> Hi,
>
> With the elimination in recent versions of MailMate of support for the 
> “hidden” feature for colouring messages in the inbox message list 
> using a file called Styles.plist, I have been told by Benny that I 
> need to use smart mailboxes to apply colours to messages in a combined 
> message list.
>
> My problem is that I can only see doing this in a practical fashion by 
> using rules to automatically move incoming messages to specific 
> (coloured) mailboxes and then by using a smart mailbox to combine the 
> contents of these various coloured mailboxes into a single message 
> list, with each message retaining the colour of its parent mailbox.
>
> HOWEVER, this only works if my rules for moving incoming messages to 
> specific mailboxes works reliably for all messages. But I am finding 
> that it doesn’t work reliably. Sometimes incoming messages stay in 
> the inbox even though they do meet the criteria of the rule that is 
> supposed to move them.
>
> My impression is that this might be because the move action only works 
> when messages actually “arrive” in the inbox, and I am assuming 
> that this “arriving” state is not always detected because incoming 
> messages might arrive in my inbox during a time when MailMate is NOT 
> checking for new mail and one of my other devices (iPad, iPhone) IS 
> checking for new mail, so that the arrival of these messages is not 
> detected by MailMate. (I can “force” MailMate to move these missed 
> messages to their destination by manually moving them to another box 
> and then back to the inbox, but obviously I cannot keep doing this 
> every time MM misses one.)
>
> Is that really what’s going on? Or is there another reason why 
> sometimes incoming messages are NOT moved to their respective 
> mailboxes even though they do meet the criteria of the rule that is 
> supposed to move them?
>
> If my theory is correct, how can I ensure that incoming messages are 
> ALWAYS moved from the inbox to their destination mailbox reliably, 
> regardless of whether they “arrive” first on my iPhone or iPad 
> before showing up in MailMate on my Mac?
>
> Apologies if I am misunderstanding something obvious.
>
> Pierre
>
>
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