[MlMt] Cannot manually Apply Rules

[Randall Meadows]

Update: OK, this just got really weird...

What prompted my original message (below) was: I had apparently 
misconfigured SpamSieve (I retired the machine that the Mail.app drone 
was running on, and set things back up on a different machine), and all 
my (good, non-spam, as well as spam messages) were going to the Spam 
mailbox.  So, in MailMate, I moved all those good messages back to my 
INBOX, and attempted to run the rules on them again, so they'd filter to 
the appropriate sub-mailboxes.  But I was unable to do so, because of 
the disabled menu item, hence my original post.

NOW, however, when I have the INBOX selected in the left pane, the 
messages list in the right-top pane shows messages from a VARIETY of 
mailboxes, NOT just INBOX.  It appears that the messages I moved from 
the Spam mailbox back to INBOX *did* get filtered into their correct 
mailboxes - which I guess I can see happening, if the rules are executed 
on any messages that are placed into INBOX, but I would have thought 
that would only happen with received messages, not for manually-moved 
messages - but why are they still being listed when INBOX is selected in 
the mailbox list?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It actually appears that the messages in question are *duplicated* in 
the INBOX and their "real" mailbox (BTW, this is the Smart "Unread" 
mailbox I'm talking about here).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zferf6ki5uncjcn/INBOX-shows-other-mailboxes.png?dl=0


Please help!
randy


On 19 Sep 2018, at 13:11, Randall Meadows wrote:

> Regardless of what's selected and highlighted—a mailbox, all 
> messages, or some messages—the Mailbox > Apply Rules menu item is 
> persistently disabled.
>
> Why, and what's the magic voodoo incantation to make it not so?