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<p dir="auto">On 12 Jun 2015, at 17:15, Vincent Acheson wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">She never does anything to manage the ever-growing pile<br>
of guff in her inbox - 901 unread. I'm hoping I can work out a way to<br>
sort the wheat from the chaff using smart mailboxes(!!). The counter<br>
customisations are looking really attractive right now!</p>
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<p dir="auto">The last time I cleaned up an account for one of my parents I simply double-clicked from addresses or subjects in the messages outline in order to easily delete groups of messages:</p>
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<li>Double click a field in the messages outline.</li>
<li>Hit ⌘A to select all of the messages.</li>
<li>Hit delete.</li>
<li>Hit escape.</li>
<li>Repeat</li>
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<p dir="auto">It was also useful with the Submailboxes feature in the mailbox editor to quickly overview what kind of messages were in the Inbox (also based on From address).</p>
<p dir="auto">For the future it might be useful with rules to separate the emails into separate mailboxes automatically. For example, create an IMAP mailbox named “Newsletters” and add a rule to the Inbox (or maybe Archive) with a condition like “From ▸ Address is in NewsLetters From ▸ Address” (and an action to move to Newsletters). After moving some newsletters manually then they should start being moved automatically.</p>
<p dir="auto">-- <br>
Benny</p>
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