[MlMt] placement of folders?

[Kearney Buskirk]

On 3 Sep 2015, at 1:27, Fredrik Jonsson wrote:

> Kearney Buskirk 2015-09-02 18:56 wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I have completely stopped sorting mail in different folders since 
> moving to MailMate. I just dump everything in to “Archive” and use 
> the smart folders to do all the sorting for me. My archive folder have 
> 60000+ messages, zero problems.
>
> I can now quickly add and change folders, have mail show up in several 
> "folders" at the same time (per company and per project e.g.) and have 
> one smart folder that automatically creates sub mailboxes for all my 
> mailing lists just to name a few things. Start attaching rules to a 
> smart folder and you can do some really advanced mail handling.
>
> I have set up my own key bindings so “i” will select the inbox, 
> “a” will archive mail, “d” will delete them, “f” flag them 
> and “r” for making a reply. This takes care of most of my mail 
> interaction and leaves the inbox empty.
>
> Fredrik

Thanks Fredrik, that really helped me understand the value and use of 
smart mailboxes and dumping to Archive. That would keep the Inbox empty.

Kearney
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