[MlMt] newbie question about folders

[Jo]

On 28 Jan 2020, at 7:53, Glenn Parker wrote:

> First, a little nomenclature for the new user. What MailMate calls the 
> “Account” or “Source” is what I normally call a “mailbox”, 
> that is to say the folder hierarchically and messages accessed via a 
> particular account on an IMAP server. To me, that whole thing is the 
> mailbox. What MailMate calls a “IMAP Mailbox” is what I would 
> normally call a “folder”. The core standard for IMAP, [RFC 
> 3501](<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501>), uses this terminology 
> for mailboxes and folders, as does every other IMAP client I have 
> used.

OK, bear with me here… (I’ve actually closed my eyes to this whole 
thing for a couple days to see if a clearer head will help) I’m 
looking under Sources. The assorted email accounts that I have are 
listed, with little globe icons. When I expand those, there are little 
folder icons (draft, inbox, junk, sent, trash…if it’s a gmail 
account, drafts becomes [gmail] with its own set up subfolders (folder 
icons - the blue things).

> You can then add rules to your INBOX folder that will automatically 
> (or manually) move incoming messages to your new Mailbox as they 
> arrive. You can add lots of rules for specific email senders, or for 
> email from a particular domain, or many other criteria. You can even 
> make a rule that recognizes email addresses found in an existing 
> Mailbox.

So what you’re saying is all of these little things that look like 
folders to me are the IMAP mailboxes? Are you also saying that I can 
MOVE messages into these mailboxes and they (the messages) will no 
longer appear in any main inbox area? And I can do that by using the 
move command, AND by filtering?

What I’m trying to do is MOSTLY keep anything that’s a receipt for 
stuff I’ve purchased online in one place, and a couple of other 
categories of emails, both stuff I’ve sent and stuff I’ve received 
(to & from certain people). These are the messages I don’t want to 
lose, so I would really prefer if I could sorta tuck them away in the 
corner where I won’t stumble on them accidentally some night and 
delete something by mistake.

And then all the little purple folders are the smart mailboxes - I 
figured that part out, seeing as how it’s what appears when you tell 
it to make a new smart mailbox. ;-)

And the smart mailboxes don’t really STORE anything? They just sort. 
Anything in a smart mailbox will also show up in whatever inbox 
they’re associated with under sources, right? So I’m better off not 
putting the stuff I want to keep, like ‘thank you for your order’ 
emails from vendors, in a smart mailbox, I should ONLY direct these to 
an IMAP mailbox down at the bottom under sources?


                                  Jo
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