[MlMt] Grouping mailing lists

Robert DelRossi rdr at rdelrossi.com
Sun Sep 8 18:45:33 EDT 2019


Charlie, in my case one condition on my standard Inbox filters out all 
Newsletter tags, so I'm not setting it for each of my inboxes 
individually.

Max, would you describe in a little more detail where the "Not Mailing 
Lists" goes in the new Smart Inbox of your solution? Thank you.

-- Robert


On 8 Sep 2019, at 17:03, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:

> If by folder you mean a smart folder then you can just create a smart 
> folder named "Mailing Lists" with the rules that make it match what 
> you are after, i.e. "List-Id" exists to get all mailing-lists. And 
> then a smart folder which will be your inbox add a mailbox line that 
> says "Not Mailing Lists".
>
> Then there are no need to do any tagging as its all done virtually for 
> you.
>
> /max
> https://xam.dk/about
>
> On 8 Sep 2019, at 21:06, Charlie Clark wrote:
>
>> On 8 Sep 2019, at 20:36, Robert DelRossi wrote:
>>
>>> Charlie -- I'm new to Mailmate, too (and loving it!). Here's the 
>>> approach I've taken with mailing lists.
>>>
>>> I created a new Smart Mailbox called Newsletters. In the Conditions 
>>> section of its properties I set all the requirements for what I want 
>>> collected (emails sent from all the various newsletter accounts). On 
>>> the Sub-mailboxes tab I turned on "Submailbox for each unique value 
>>> of From/Name." This creates a separate folder in the Smart Mailbox 
>>> for each Name I receive. So, for example, I now automatically have 
>>> folders under the Newsletters folder for one journal or another.
>>>
>>> Finally, in the Smart Mailbox properties I added a rule (in the 
>>> Rules tab) that tags each incoming message with a Newsletters tag.
>>>
>>> Now, on my mail Inbox I set a condition that tells it to shows 
>>> messages that  **don't**  have a Newsletter tag. This way, all the 
>>> messages filtered into my Smart Mailbox don't show up in my Inbox.
>>>
>>> Hope this makes sense. As I say, I'm new here, too, so perhaps the 
>>> others will have a more straightforward way to do this. But the 
>>> approach I've taken works and I'm thrilled with the results.
>>
>> Yes, it makes sense. So I should be able to create a "Mailing List" 
>> tag and get other mailboxes to ignore mails that are so tagged. A 
>> little clumsy but workable, I guess.
>>
>> Charlie
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