[MlMt] SmartMailbox - From equals To

Marc ARC MailMate at arcict.com
Wed Mar 27 12:04:01 EDT 2019


Benny,

Many thanks for your thoughts & reaction, don’t spent any more time on 
it.
We’ll try live without ;-)

Marc


On 27 Mar 2019, at 15:02, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 23 Mar 2019, at 10:27, Marc ARC wrote:
>
>> I want to define a smart mailbox to contain/exclude all mails where 
>> the From: equals the To:.
>> Is there a datapoint/variable which can be used for the value in the 
>> filter
>>
>> So the filter would look like <From:> <is> [To(of this email)]
>
> No. I guess something like that could be obtained by some elaborate 
> system which uses a tag to temporarily put an email into a 
> single-message smart mailbox and then use that on the right side of a 
> “is in” comparison, but that sounds a bit messy :-)
>
> I guess the “is in” comparison method could offer a special 
> “This Message” virtual mailbox, but it seems like overkill 
> (implementation-wise) if “from = to” is the only real use case for 
> such a feature. Then again, if it was extended to also support 
> “Parent Message”, “This Thread”, and other variants then it 
> might make sense to add... (Implementation-wise, I'm afraid it's far 
> from straightforward.)
>
> -- 
> Benny
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