[MlMt] personal inbox and stupid me.

Zvi Biener zvistrash at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 12:21:43 EDT 2013


Thanks, everyone. Mailboxes successfully reconstructed.

On 4 Apr 2013, at 12:03, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 4 Apr 2013, at 10:24, Zvi Biener wrote:
>
>> Dear MM users,
>> Through astounding stupidity on my part, I deleted the "Personal 
>> Inbox" and "Personal Inbox w/ Treads" mailboxes that come in the 
>> "Examples" mailbox folder. Can one of you remind me what conditions 
>> define those mailboxes? I actually used them, and well… astounding 
>> stupidity.
>
> The definitions in ~Library/Application 
> Support/MailMate/Mailboxes.plist that Steve Mayer are user-specific 
> instances derived from the canonical definitions in 
> MailMate.app/Contents/Resources/defaultMailboxes.plist, which has all 
> of the pristine definitions should you ever need them, including:
>
> 	{
> 		name = 'Personal Inbox';
> 		set = 'INBOX';
> 		filter = '#recipient.address = $SENT.from.address';
> 		uuid = "PERSONAL_INBOX";
> 	},
>
> That's messages from the aggregated Inbox where a Recipient->Address 
> is in the From->Address value set of the aggregated Sent Messages 
> mailbox
>
> 	{
> 		name = 'Personal Inbox with Threads';
> 		set = "ALL_MESSAGES";
> 		filter = '#thread-id =[c] $PERSONAL_INBOX.#thread-id';
> 	},
>
> That's messages from the All Messages aggregate where the Thread-Id is 
> in the Thread-Id value set of the Personal Inbox.
>
> If need to fix major damage to your smart mailbox collection or tweak 
> things that MM can't (e.g. partitioning) you can edit Mailboxes.plist 
> by hand with MM shut down, but it is probably best to create the 
> skeleton of folders and sub-mailboxes in MM to assure that the various 
> uuid fields that define the
> structure are correct.
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