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<p dir="auto">On 23 Oct 2017, at 10:42, John Cooper 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">I had been using MailMate for well over a year before I realized that smart folders were the key to many of the advantages MailMate offers. They are enormously powerful. I even have smart folders that do nothing but point to IMAP folders, so that I almost never have to go into the **Sources** mailboxes at all.<br>
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So why do I still have IMAP folders other than the standard folders? Why not keep all my messages in **INBOX, Archive,** and **Sent?** Because sometimes I need to find messages quickly on my phone or on a Web-based client when I'm away from my own computer. In those situations, it's very helpful to have messages to this list separated into a "MailMate" folder so they don't clutter other important views. It's also very helpful to have job-related messages in a "Career" folder, to have tickets for upcoming performances in a "Tickets" folder, and to keep track of expected physical deliveries and respondent actions in a "Waiting" folder. This lets me quickly access (or avoid) particular categories when I'm unable to use MailMate.<br>
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<p dir="auto">Thank you: that's my issue, also. I believe what might be the right thing would be to use smart folders and also be able to archive materials to separate IMAP folders (and eventually unsubscribe to them).</p>
<p dir="auto">Is this a reasonable workflow?</p>
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<li value="1">Create tags corresponding to projects/topics, for example "project1"</li>
<li value="2">Have a smart folder that incorporates all the messages with such a tag (e.g., a "project1" smart folder) <em>and</em> all messages in the project1 IMAP folder, thus displaying all relevant messages.</li>
<li value="3">Periodically archive all the messages in the smart folder into the corresponding IMAP folder.</li>
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<p dir="auto">Thanks,<br>
r</p>
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