[MlMt] Triggers for Smart Folder Rules

[Carlos Moffat]

On 9 Sep 2020, at 15:35, Bill Cole wrote:

> On 9 Sep 2020, at 14:34, Carlos Moffat wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’m trying to understand better how to use Smart Folders. I have a 
>> Smart Folder that shows emails with the Tag (also Gmail/IMAP label) 
>> “ToReply” (this allows me to mark emails to answer on the go by 
>> applying the label from my phone, or with a shortcut in MailMate) 
>> contained anywhere on my account (so I can mark an email ToReply and 
>> move it out of the Inbox if needed).
>>
>> I would like the email to be removed from the Smart Folder when I 
>> reply to it. My naive understanding of this is that I could set up a 
>> rule that would remove the tag if the message is “replied”, but 
>> this of course doesn’t work unless I manually apply the rules to 
>> the folder, which defeats the purpose of the automation, so I have to 
>> manually remove the tag after I reply to the email.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to make a workflow like the above work?
>
> Make the Replied tag not being set a condition  of inclusion in the 
> Smart Folder

Thanks, this is very useful. I should have clarified: one of my goals is 
to have a workflow that works on my phone as well.

While your suggestion works while in MailMate, if I’m looking at the 
“ToReply” label/folder on my phone, I would see a bunch of tagged 
emails that have been replied to. Hence my need to remove the tag.

What I ended up doing to solve this, together with your suggestion, was 
to create a second smart folder that only looks for tagged emails that 
have been replied to, and then removes the tag with a rule. That seemed 
to work as I wanted.

Thank you!

Carlos

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