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<p dir="auto">On 28 Jan 2020, at 7:53, Glenn Parker wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">First, a little nomenclature for the new user. What MailMate calls the “Account” or “Source” is what I normally call a “mailbox”, that is to say the folder hierarchically and messages accessed via a particular account on an IMAP server. To me, that whole thing is the mailbox. What MailMate calls a “IMAP Mailbox” is what I would normally call a “folder”. The core standard for IMAP, <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501">RFC 3501</a>, uses this terminology for mailboxes and folders, as does every other IMAP client I have used.</p>
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<p dir="auto">OK, bear with me here… (I’ve actually closed my eyes to this whole thing for a couple days to see if a clearer head will help) I’m looking under Sources. The assorted email accounts that I have are listed, with little globe icons. When I expand those, there are little folder icons (draft, inbox, junk, sent, trash…if it’s a gmail account, drafts becomes [gmail] with its own set up subfolders (folder icons - the blue things).</p>
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<p dir="auto">You can then add rules to your INBOX folder that will automatically (or manually) move incoming messages to your new Mailbox as they arrive. You can add lots of rules for specific email senders, or for email from a particular domain, or many other criteria. You can even make a rule that recognizes email addresses found in an existing Mailbox.</p>
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<p dir="auto">So what you’re saying is all of these little things that look like folders to me are the IMAP mailboxes? Are you also saying that I can MOVE messages into these mailboxes and they (the messages) will no longer appear in any main inbox area? And I can do that by using the move command, AND by filtering?</p>
<p dir="auto">What I’m trying to do is MOSTLY keep anything that’s a receipt for stuff I’ve purchased online in one place, and a couple of other categories of emails, both stuff I’ve sent and stuff I’ve received (to & from certain people). These are the messages I don’t want to lose, so I would really prefer if I could sorta tuck them away in the corner where I won’t stumble on them accidentally some night and delete something by mistake.</p>
<p dir="auto">And then all the little purple folders are the smart mailboxes - I figured that part out, seeing as how it’s what appears when you tell it to make a new smart mailbox. ;-)</p>
<p dir="auto">And the smart mailboxes don’t really STORE anything? They just sort. Anything in a smart mailbox will also show up in whatever inbox they’re associated with under sources, right? So I’m better off not putting the stuff I want to keep, like ‘thank you for your order’ emails from vendors, in a smart mailbox, I should ONLY direct these to an IMAP mailbox down at the bottom under sources?</p>
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