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<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 <strong>Sources</strong> mailboxes at all.</p>
<p dir="auto">So why do I still have IMAP folders other than the standard folders? Why not keep all my messages in <strong>INBOX, Archive,</strong> and <strong>Sent?</strong> 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.</p>
<p dir="auto">Robert Goldman wrote (at 8:16 on 23 Oct 2017):</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">Thanks to everyone for the various suggestions. The trend seems clear: I should be learning to use tags and search/smart folders to do things I used to do with filing.<br>
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I'll work on figuring that out, and thanks again.<br>
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