[MlMt] placement of folders?

[Kearney Buskirk]

On 2 Sep 2015, at 12:20, John Cooper wrote:

> Kearney Buskirk wrote:
>
>> Another beginning question: where to best place Mailboxes?
>>
>> Mailmate Help “encourages the use of Smart Mailboxes”. If Smart
>> Mailboxes are used rather than Standard, aren’t my (actual rather 
>> than
>> virtual) messages then left in my Inbox? If so, seems my Inbox would
>> get vast and unwieldy. In the past I’ve routed mail out of the 
>> Inbox
>> into regular Mailboxes partly to keep the Inbox manageable…
>
> I also have a number of server-side filters for exactly that reason. I 
> was an Inbox-Zero type before the invention of the term, and my work 
> requires me to access my mail without MailMate, or a Mac, for that 
> matter. So as a new MailMate user I had to struggle with the same 
> issue. I don't have the luxury of MailMate's smart mailboxes without 
> MailMate, and I can't stand to see a crowded Inbox.
>
> I've never got rid of the server-side filters, but once I fully 
> yielded to MailMate's concept of preferring smart mailboxes, things 
> got easier for me when I was using MailMate. For me, the trick was to 
> create smart mailboxes that exactly match the contents of my most 
> important standard mailboxes, and then keep the Sources section 
> collapsed so that only the smart mailboxes appear. That helps avoid 
> the distraction of seeing an indicator for the same message in two 
> different sections. The smart mailboxes section stays expanded. I 
> group the smart mailboxes that only replicate standard mailboxes 
> together, and I use them alongside a wider set of truly smart 
> mailboxes with more complex criteria.
>
> If you don't use server-side filters, of course, you'll want to set up 
> rules in your source Inbox to move your messages to the standard 
> mailboxes as you prefer.
>
> The one downside is that certain actions in MailMate automatically 
> expand the Sources section, so that I have to continually close it 
> again. Other than that, this is the best method I've found.

Thanks, that’s very helpful.

How do you group the smart mailboxes?

Seems like this is a lot of work to get around MailMate not allowing 
standard mailboxes at the top level. Otherwise I suppose the sources 
could clicked to disclose their standard mailboxes. I’m not going to 
use server-side filters.

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