[MlMt] trouble with rules

[Bill Cole]

On 3 Sep 2015, at 21:26, Kearney Buskirk wrote:

> Further explanation:
>
> Messages in the Inbox that have rules to move it to a mailbox are 
> staying in the Inbox, even if apply rules is invoked. Or only the most 
> recent is moved from the inbox to its respective mailbox
>
> “Apply rules” is sometimes greyed out in the contextual menu for 
> the Inbox.
>
> What’s up?

 From the "Organize" page of the MailMate Help, which you can find by 
searching that help file for "Apply Rules":

> Rules
>
> You can add rules to any mailbox. Each rule is a set of conditions and 
> a set of actions. Rules are only triggered when a message is added to 
> a mailbox which most often happens when a new message arrives in an 
> account. You can apply rules to the selected messages of a mailbox by 
> using “Mailbox ▸ Apply Rules”.

In other words:  if you have no messages *selected* (i.e. you've only 
selected the mailbox) then the Apply Rules menu item will be grayed out 
because it has nothing to act on. If you want to have the current rules 
applied to all of the messages already in a mailbox, you need to select 
all of those messages.mailboxes

Does that help?

Don't expect to be able to select multiple mailboxes to get an aggregate 
message list and be able to select from that list and use Apply Rules, 
because it will be grayed. Apparently Benny (wisely, IMHO) didn't want 
to pick one of the many possibly logical ways to handle the unions 
and/or intersections of rulesets that may or may not exist (and may 
conflict) in multiple mailboxes of disparate types and associated with 
different accounts where some of the selected messages might exist in 
both one real and one or more smart mailboxes, each with its own 
ruleset.

THAT was probably more confusing than helpful...