[MlMt] Triggers for Smart Folder Rules

[Antonio Leding]

Hi Carlos - just curious, what app are you going with on your phone?



On 9 Sep 2020, at 13:22, Carlos Moffat wrote:

> 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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