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<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">On 28 Dec 2016, at 18:01, Randall Meadows wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">On 28 Dec 2016, at 1:43, Dave C wrote:<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">I understand that the purpose of smart folders is to mirror messages to those folders without actually moving them. How can I achieve my goal of having the Inbox (or maybe another smart folder named “MyInbox”?) not contain the messages that are visible in the smart folders?<br>
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</blockquote><p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">Well, INBOX is not a smart folder, so I'm not sure you can do what you're asking here without actually moving some messages somewhere; if a message is in INBOX, it's going to show in INBOX, regardless of whether it's also showing in some other smart mailbox. Perhaps someone smarter than I will correct me, but I think you'll have to move messages out of the INBOX in order to achieve what you're asking for here.</p>
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<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">Just for the record, it is possible to do this with smart mailboxes. All mailboxes can have a set of conditions which essentially “hides” part of its contents. If you have a smart mailbox named, e.g., “Special Senders”, then you can add a condition to the Inbox which says:</p>
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<p dir="auto" style="margin:1em 0">I'm kind of using this myself on the universal Inbox to hide any emails related to a particular IMAP account I'm monitoring for someone else.</p>
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Benny</p>
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