[MlMt] Grouping mailing lists

[Robert DelRossi]

Grrr.. That 2nd-to-last paragraph should've read,

> Now I do **NOT** have to tag anything to exclude. I can work out of 
> the Universal Inbox knowing that all the newsletters are already 
> excluded automatically.

-- Robert


On 18 Sep 2019, at 15:49, Robert DelRossi wrote:

> Charlie -- I was the one who got you down the path of tagging incoming 
> mailing list messages in the first place. But something Max Rydahl 
> Andersen said got me considering a different, cleaner approach. I'm 
> not sure it will work for you, but here is what I did:
>
> First, I created a new smart mailbox called "Universal Inbox." The 
> goal for the Universal Inbox is a place that I can work that isn't 
> cluttered by all my various newsletter subscriptions.
>
> On the Universal Inbox I set its Mailboxes tab to a two-part "all" 
> condition:
>
> * Condition 1 is the built-in "All Messages" mailbox. That brings in 
> every message from every server I use (Google, Business, Personal, 
> etc).
> * Condition 2 of the compound is set to "None of the following 
> mailboxes" and here I list every other Smart Mailbox that I don't want 
> to see, like all my newsletter and the one I have to this MailMate 
> List.
>
>> ![](cid:8BDACA18-4779-4939-960E-29ACBD43348C at rdelrossi.com 
>> "PastedImage.png")
>
> Now I do have to tag anything to exclude. I can work out of the 
> Universal Inbox knowing that all the newsletters are already excluded 
> automatically.
>
> Hope this might be helpful to you.
>
> -- Robert
>
>
>
>
> On 11 Sep 2019, at 8:45, Charlie Clark wrote:
>
>> On 10 Sep 2019, at 18:03, Charlie Clark wrote:
>>
>>> I think I've got this working for me. I've created some additional 
>>> smart mailboxes (Python, Web, etc.) and put the mailing lists I want 
>>> in these. I then set a rule for all mailing lists to be tagged as 
>>> Mailing List. Then I excluded the selected mailing lists from the 
>>> general mailing list mailbox. Then I set a condition for my accounts 
>>> and their inboxes to ignore anything tagged mailing list. I 
>>> initially tried setting the condition tags does not exist for the 
>>> inboxes but that didn't work as expected.
>>
>> Okay, this doesn't work quite as expected. Once a new mail arrives on 
>> a list, the list gets added to the general Mailing Lists folder but 
>> does not appear in the dedicated mailbox. I can appreciate this is 
>> because of the slightly circular logic and can work around it, but it 
>> would be nice if something like this could be added.
>>
>> Charlie
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