[MlMt] Rules: "is in" smart mailbox and Gmail Labels

[Galen Menzel]

On 15 May 2018, at 8:04, Zvi Biener wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> There has been lots of discussion of rules lately, so I apologize if 
> this was already addressed:
>
> I'm having trouble setting rules, under the following conditions:
>
> 1. I use Gmail labels by hiding the associated gmail "mailboxes" from 
> MailMate (through the "Edit Subscriptions"). I then use Smart 
> Mailboxes that pick out messages with the appropriate labels. So, if I 
> use Label "Marketing", I hide the Marketing mailbox from MM, and 
> define a smart mailboxes that picks out all messages with the tag 
> "Marketing" from All Messages. I do this so I don't have duplicate 
> messages, and because I use the same tags/keywords across multiple 
> accounts.
>
> 2. I'd like to define a rule that matches the from address of incoming 
> mail against from addresses that are already in the "Marketing" smart 
> mailbox. Like: "From -> Address" "is in" "Marketing" (the smart 
> mailbox) "From->Address".
> However, in this context mailboxes that are defined as in 1 are greyed 
> out. Other smart mailboxes are OK, but any smart mailbox that picks 
> out a gmail label is greyed out.
>
> Any ideas on how to get around this?
>

I’m not able to reproduce this on my system (OS 10.13.4, MM revision 
5479). If I create a smart mailbox that contains messages tagged with a 
tag that has a gmail equivalent label, I can create a second smart 
mailbox that matches its from addresses with no issue.

Galen