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

[Zvi Biener]

Thanks! The hint about circular reference did it. I actually considered 
this after writing the original email, and thought the existing loop was 
benign, but I see why a very strict constraint would be appropriate. 
Thanks, all fixed now.

On 18 May 2018, at 5:25, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 15 May 2018, at 17:04, Zvi Biener wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I think you should read 
> [this](https://manual.mailmate-app.com/account_setup#gmail) since 
> MailMate already has built-in support to make tags work as you would 
> expect them to with a Gmail account. This includes hiding the label 
> mailbox.
>
>> 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 think they would only be greyed out if there was some kind of cyclic 
> reference, but maybe there's a bug somewhere related to this. You can 
> send me the following file and I *think* I should be able to reproduce 
> the issue:
>
> 	~/Library/Application Support/MailMate/Mailboxes.plist
>
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