[MlMt] Creating rules - cannot get mail sorted to smart mailboxes

[Glenn Parker]

On 4 Nov 2024, at 8:00, James Coffey wrote:

> Still struggling.  I’m on 6065, and just created a new rule:
> Have smart mailbox under All Messages. Created rule in that 
> smartmailbox:
> Set condition to
> Any address contains ‘email address’
> Set rule to any address contains ‘email address’
> Committed rule
> Apply rule
> And still get entire inbox.

I’m not sure what you want to accomplish with rules in the above, 
since you didn’t mention any actions.

I created a smart mailbox under All Messages. In the smart mailbox 
configuration, the Mailboxes tab is the default (All Messages). I set 
the Conditions to “From • Name is - Glenn Parker”. The smart 
mailbox immediately changes to show only messages from me.

Now, if I wanted to do something with that subset of messages, I would 
add a new rule and define a condition like, maybe, “Date • Year 
less or equal to - 2022”, and then add an Action like, maybe, “Move 
to Mailbox - Archive”. Note that I do not need to include a condition 
about the from address, since the smart mailbox is already filtering for 
that.

Committing and applying that new rule would move all the messages from 
2022 and older to my archive folder (not something I really want to do 
BTW).

Maybe it would help to share a small screenshot? That can be tricky on 
this email forum, since messages with large attachments get blackholed, 
but I’m having a hard time envisioning what’s not working for you.

Glenn P. Parker
glenn.parker at comcast.net
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