[MlMt] can I make rules apply automatically?

[Bill Cole]

On 23 Mar 2020, at 14:58, Jo wrote:

> On 23 Mar 2020, at 11:17, Seamus Phillips wrote:
>
>> If you set up a smart mailbox for read messages, you would be able to 
>> apply a rule to that.
>
> so… that would essentially be everything that I read goes there, and 
> once it's there, the rules I make for filing them away would 
> automatically apply, leaving the other stuff I would still want to 
> figure out what to do with… right? Which could be a GOOD thing in 
> helping me get better organized. ;-)

Right.

I do something like this with mailing list mail. I have a smart mailbox 
that contains all of the messages  that are over 35 days old from the 
many mailing lists I'm on which have public archives. I have a rule for 
that mailbox which deletes any message which does not have my domain in 
a Message-ID, References, or In-Reply-To header. This means that I keep 
conversations that I have engaged in on mailing lists but discard 
everything else automatically.

> (I am still trying to get back to the same comfort level I had with 
> PowerMail, knowing where to find everything)

I feel your pain...

I used Eudora for over a decade and for a few after that used 
Thunderbird with a collection of extensions intended to make it more 
like Eudora. I'm only mostly adapted to MM after ~7 years.

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Bill Cole
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