[MlMt] Advice for new user

[John Cooper]

I had been using MailMate for well over a year before I realized that 
smart folders were the key to many of the advantages MailMate offers. 
They are enormously powerful. I even have smart folders that do nothing 
but point to IMAP folders, so that I almost never have to go into the 
**Sources** mailboxes at all.

So why do I still have IMAP folders other than the standard folders? Why 
not keep all my messages in **INBOX, Archive,** and **Sent?** Because 
sometimes I need to find messages quickly on my phone or on a Web-based 
client when I'm away from my own computer. In those situations, it's 
very helpful to have messages to this list separated into a "MailMate" 
folder so they don't clutter other important views. It's also very 
helpful to have job-related messages in a "Career" folder, to have 
tickets for upcoming performances in a "Tickets" folder, and to keep 
track of expected physical deliveries and respondent actions in a 
"Waiting" folder. This lets me quickly access (or avoid) particular 
categories when I'm unable to use MailMate.

Robert Goldman wrote (at 8:16 on 23 Oct 2017):

> Thanks to everyone for the various suggestions.  The trend seems 
> clear: I should be learning to use tags and search/smart folders to do 
> things I used to do with filing.
>
> I'll work on figuring that out, and thanks again.
>
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