[MlMt] search using address book groups

[Dr Gregory Jefferis]

On 14 Mar 2013, at 9:25, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 14 Mar 2013, at 1:57, Dr Gregory Jefferis wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know how to set up a smart mailbox based on to/from etc 
>> being a member of an Address Book group?
>
> Sorry, this is not (yet) possible.

OK +1 from me. Is there a feature request somewhere?

The reason I prefer address book groups (over the approach below) is 
that the groups are pretty clear and it's easy to change over time (e.g. 
people come and go from my lab)

>> This was a useful feature of Apple Mail that I have not yet 
>> recapitulated. I have used the "from" in mailbox approach and find 
>> this somewhat effective, but it also means that you have to very 
>> careful with mailbox purity.
>
> Not quite sure I got that, but the best workaround is probably to tag 
> messages from people in the Address Book group (if possible), create a 
> smart mailbox with those messages based on the tag, and then make 
> “is in” smart mailboxes based on the from header of messages in 
> that mailbox.

More or less what I'm doing, using an existing static mailbox. But first 
I have to clear out the mailbox for odd messages that got filed there in 
error (takes longer than one might think). So yes your approach of 
tagging defined messages would probably work better.

Thanks,

Greg.

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