[MlMt] Question on IMAP mailboxes and rules from a MailMate newbie

[Topher Buck]

In general, I agree, but it’s not obvious to me that Fastmail’s 
labels and mailboxes--let alone MailMate tags--work much better in 
MailMate than Gmail’s. I’m sure this is one of those issues that 
seems, to a non-coder like me, like it should be simple but isn’t. 
(It’s also unclear to me whether Fastmail’s JMAP implementation has 
any effect on this.) I have taken to using the “Move to Mailbox” 
(⌥⌘T) command rather than tagging messages and trying to map 
MailMate tags to Fastmail labels.

If any experienced Fastmail users have better ideas, I’d love to hear 
them. Thank you.

/topher


On 15 Mar 2021, at 6:41, Robert Brenstein wrote:

> You may want to consider changing your paradigm a bit and instead of 
> using physical mailboxes for groups like friends and lists, you use 
> smart mailboxes. You may find that this gives you even more 
> flexibility and control over your mail streams. I am talking from 
> experience of using POP with Eudora for many many many years and 
> switching to IMAP and MailMate a few years ago.
>
> Robert