[MlMt] discussion topic: IMAP or smart mailbox?

[Peter Borsella]

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On 15 Jun 2018, at 6:42, Philip Paeps wrote:

> On 2018-06-14 22:25:48 (+0200), Peter Borsella wrote:
>> 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?
>
> As others have pointed out: "it depends".
>
> One more data point to keep in mind is that historically, very 
> complicated smart folder rules have sometimes been a little slow.  
> Though Benny invariably manages to make them fast as soon as someone 
> points it out on the mailing list and supplies enough debugging 
> information.
>
> I have Sieve do the sorting into IMAP folders on the server and use 
> MailMate smart folders to show me the relevant messages from several 
> folders combined (e.g.: mailing lists I care about, active threads in 
> mailboxes that are not inboxes, etc).
>
> This is the best of both worlds for my workload.
>
> Philip
>
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> Philip Paeps
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