[MlMt] will MailMate be a good mail mate for me?

[David Morrison]

At 13:16 +0900 10/6/16, Fredrik Jonsson wrote:
>>All incoming messages are sorted out by filters into close to 300 
>>mailboxes. What is left in the inbox is some junk that sneaked thru 
>>spam filters and a few misc messages.
>
>I used to sort mails in many real folders with many rules. With 
>MailMate I just dump everything in Archive after handling it 
>(manually or via rules). I then use MailMates smart folders (really 
>smart) to organise them to my liking. Smart folders are really saved 
>searches but they feel just like folders.

This is all very well where there is something common in all of the 
messages, as there might be in mailing lists. However, some mailing 
list do have weird responses that my filters do not pick up.

Worse is where messages grouped in a folder do not have something 
common to search for, such as messages from different people about a 
particular project. Saved searches are useless in this case for 
finding all the relevant messages. (I suppose you could make up some 
really convoluted rules involving listing all the likely people and 
certain keywords to identify the project.)

Cheers

David