[MlMt] Rules

Randall Gellens mailmate at randy.pensive.org
Fri Jan 19 19:33:10 EST 2018


Thank you.

On 19 Jan 2018, at 0:41, askedrelic at gmail.com wrote:

> I have 3 accounts and I only really setup rules on the INBOX of each 
> account. That is my organization around rules; I have "work email" 
> rules and "personal email" rules. I don't set Conditions or 
> Submailboxes. I suppose you create rules at some global level and then 
> use the Conditions to say where to apply the rules...
>
> I only create Rules, which are applied to every new email in that 
> inbox, when the email arrives (that is the default behavior of how 
> rules work).
>
> Here are my rules for my personal account, to organize my email into 
> folders: https://files.asktherelic.com/20180119-0933-d8dzq.png
>
> And the rule for this mailing list looks like: 
> https://files.asktherelic.com/20180119-0935-2zzqp.png
>
> When you are testing rules, you can go to the menu Mailbox > Apply 
> Rules of "INBOX" and force the rules to run again. I do this when my 
> rules don't seem to be trigger.
>
> Cheers
>
> On 19 Jan 2018, at 4:04, Randall Gellens wrote:
>
>> At 5:20 PM -0800 1/18/18, Randall Gellens wrote:
>>
>>>  Is there a more detailed manual somewhere?  I can't figure out 
>>> seemingly basic stuff.  Right now I'm trying to configure rules and 
>>> I see Conditions, Submailboxes, and Rules.  I'm guessing 
>>> Submailboxes lets you create default rules for either moving mail or 
>>> virtual mailboxes, but I haven't tried it.  However, what is the 
>>> difference between the Conditions section and the conditions created 
>>> in the Rules section?
>>
>> Also, what are the various specifiers for rule conditions (e.g., 
>> 'Received' has six, one of which has two sub ones)?  I've been 
>> picking "No Specifier" but would like to what what they are.
>>
>> -- 
>> Randall Gellens
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>> You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof.
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