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<p dir="auto">Hi Peter</p>
<p dir="auto">Assuming you have (or can articulate) consistent rules about what goes into which folder, smart mailboxes are (in my view) much better, because I don’t much care for spending time filing. I only have these actual mailboxes:</p>
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<li>inbox</li>
<li>sent items</li>
<li>junk (via spamsieve)</li>
<li>archive</li>
<li>sanelater (filter non-junk crud that I skim weekly using sanebox; I have a keystroke programmed to train messages from my inbox to sanebox when needed).</li>
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<p dir="auto">Everything else I find I can do by search and/or smart mailboxes (essentially your ‘consistent rules’ from above become the smart mailbox criteria). I have about a dozen smart mailboxes permanently set up, and use the advanced search functionality continuously. Search has a nifty ‘save’ feature, so you can set up the searches you want and save them as smart mailboxes.</p>
<p dir="auto">Once emails are older than a year or so I shift them to eaglefiler, to keep down the volume that MM has to handle.</p>
<p dir="auto">Searching the mail list archive will turn up multiple discussions on this topic, but I think the consensus leans towards smart mailboxes and searching.</p>
<p dir="auto">cheers<br>
Simon</p>
<p dir="auto">On 15 Jun 2018, at 6:25, Peter Borsella wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Hello, All,</p>
<p dir="auto">I currently have hundreds of IMAP folders. Now that I have MailMate I’m wondering, is it better to create IMAP folders, or, better to create smart mailboxes every time I need a new collection of emails?</p>
<p dir="auto">If this has already been debated I’d appreciate pointing me to the discussion thread.</p>
<p dir="auto">Thanks!<br>
...Peter</p>
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