[MlMt] newbie question about folders

[Ken Pope]

On 27 Jan 2020, at 15:16, Jo wrote:

> Just switched over to MailMate from PowerMail. I’ve been hanging 
> onto PM for a very long time, but it seems it’s not gonna work with 
> the next OS upgrade, so here I am.

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> > Also, what if I just want to save some emails by physically moving 
> them into a folder? I’m guessing that’s something with 
> ‘archives’ but I can’t seem to figure out how to make this 
> happen. What I’d like it not to accidentally delete them when I am 
> in the basic ‘inbox’ somewhere. In PM, if I put something in a 
> folder, that’s the only place it was. Here it seems to be a 
> ‘copy.’ OK, I know it’s not a copy, more like an alias, I guess? 
> But whatever, I don’t want to see it elsewhere, because I might 
> accidentally hit delete. Does that make sense?

I’m a fellow PowerMail-user-since-forever who recently moved to 
MailMate when PM no longer worked w/ my OS upgrade.  Here are the steps 
I take to create that kind of folder: First, in the vertical list 
labeled “Mailboxes” along the left margin of MailMate, I scroll down 
to the label “Sources.” Immediately under “Sources” is my email 
address, which I highlight. Then I click on the “gear” at the 
bottom, and the menu it shows includes “New IMAP Mailbox in [my email 
address]”.

I click that option which (unsurprisingly) creates a new IMAP Mailbox 
under my email address above.  I type in a name for that mailbox.  Then 
I can drag any emails from my inbox into that mailbox.  The message no 
longer appears in my inbox—it appears only in that new IMAP mailbox.  
I’ve created quite a few of those IMAP mailboxes so I can keep 
important messages, find them easily, and not worry about accidentally 
erasing them.

Hope that helps. Am guessing those who’ve used MM longer will be able 
to tell you simpler, quicker, or better ways to do what you want to do.

Ken