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<p dir="auto">On 4 Nov 2024, at 10:47, Robert Wall wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Harry, thanks for replying. This is what I have:</p>
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<li>A folder called “SubjectSenderFilter”. This is a regular folder where I put messages that I want to filter. It has two messages in it:
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<li>From: “Amazon Subscribe & Save”, Subject: “Review your upcoming delivery”</li>
<li>From: “Robert Wall”, Subject: “Your Invoice”</li>
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<li>A smart folder with two rules, “All” need to be true:
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<li>From->Name is in “SubjectSenderFilter” From->Name</li>
<li>Subject is in “SubjectSenderFilter” Subject</li>
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<p dir="auto">I sent myself a test message:</p>
<p dir="auto">From: “Robert Wall”, Subject: “Review your upcoming delivery”</p>
<p dir="auto">In other words, deliberately using a sender from one message and a subject from another. My smart folder matches my test message, and it shouldn’t.</p>
<p dir="auto">The whole idea of this is that I can throw random messages that I get repeatedly in this folder, so it auto-moves them - but that doesn’t work if I can’t ensure “from” and “subject” are matching the same message.</p>
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<p dir="auto">If I understand, you want to manually move messages to an IMAP mailbox that contains template messages, and then have a virtual mailbox that selects messages in other mailboxes that match messages in the template mailbox. So, any message in other mailboxes whose "From:" and "Subject:" header fields are identical to any message in the template mailbox is selected by the virtual mailbox.</p>
<p dir="auto">I can't think of a way to do that with MailMate's filtering ruleset.</p>
<p dir="auto">--Randall</p>
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