[MlMt] trouble with rules

[Kearney Buskirk]

On 3 Sep 2015, at 22:32, Bill Cole wrote:

> 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?

Yes, that was what I didn’t understand.

Thanks.

>
> 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...
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