[MlMt] discussion topic: IMAP or smart mailbox?

[Simon Kaplan]

Hi Peter

Assuming you have (or can articulate) consistent rules about what goes 
into which folder, smart mailboxes are (in my view) much better, because 
I don’t much care for spending time filing.  I only have these actual 
mailboxes:

- inbox
- sent items
- junk (via spamsieve)
- archive
- sanelater (filter non-junk crud that I skim weekly using sanebox;  I 
have a keystroke programmed to train messages from my inbox to sanebox 
when needed).

Everything else I find I can do by search and/or smart mailboxes 
(essentially your ‘consistent rules’ from above become the smart 
mailbox criteria).  I have about a dozen smart mailboxes permanently set 
up, and use the advanced search functionality continuously.  Search has 
a nifty ‘save’ feature, so you can set up the searches you want and 
save them as smart mailboxes.

Once emails are older than a year or so I shift them to eaglefiler, to 
keep down the volume that MM has to handle.

Searching the mail list archive will turn up multiple discussions on 
this topic, but I think the consensus leans towards smart mailboxes and 
searching.

cheers
Simon


On 15 Jun 2018, at 6:25, Peter Borsella wrote:

> Hello, All,
>
> I currently have hundreds of IMAP folders.  Now that I have MailMate 
> I’m wondering, is it better to create IMAP folders, or, better to 
> create smart mailboxes every time I need a new collection of emails?
>
> If this has already been debated I’d appreciate pointing me to the 
> discussion thread.
>
> Thanks!
> ...Peter
>
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