[MlMt] where to put rules for mailboxes?

[Kearney Buskirk]

Thanks for the quick response Benny, very impressive. Actual support for 
an email client, what a concept!

Kearney

On 2 Sep 2015, at 10:06, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 2 Sep 2015, at 16:46, Kearney Buskirk wrote:
>
>> Beginning question: where to put rules for mailboxes? That is, best 
>> to put rules on a source’s inbox, or on the source itself, or on 
>> the inbox for all sources?
>
> Definitely not on the source itself since it would be triggered 
> whenever an email is moved around within the account. I should 
> probably consider disabling the Rules pane for this (and All 
> Messages).
>
> The universal Inbox (the one under MAILBOXES) is a good choice for 
> general rules, but if you know the relevant messages arrive in a 
> particular account then you can also use the INBOX of that account.
>
> You can also add rules to other mailboxes, e.g., add rules to the 
> Archive mailbox if you want to put some archived emails in another 
> special archive mailbox.
>
>> I assume mail comes into a source’s inbox, from where it would be 
>> distributed to its “children” mailboxes..
>
> Yes, except if you have server-side filtering of emails or you have 
> used another email client to move some emails. For example, the 
> Archive technique described above would work even if you archived 
> using an iOS email client.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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