[MlMt] Feature request: 'Smart' Move to mailbox

[David Twist]

Smart mailboxes are super useful, to be sure—and I have plenty of them. Mailmate’s facility for defining rules is superb. For my purposes having discrete mailboxes is also important for a few reasons:

- I have many clients that share vendors, and as such need to parcel out those vendors’ emails to specific clients. This many-to-many pattern isn’t limited to clients-vendors, but that is the most significant example. I could theoretically switch to using tags for this, but I foresee issues with imap keyword limits and maintaining accurate, complicated rules for smart mailboxes.

- With a large imap store, leaning on smart mailboxes that search all mail has a significant performance impact.

- Related to above: discrete mailboxes allow for searches and smart mailboxes that are limited to subsets of my full mail archive, helping them to remain performant.

- I prefer using inbox rules to filter truly routine automated emails away, and then making conscious decisions about where to file everything else. This is where having a smart default destination in “move to mailbox” saves loads of time, as I don’t have to start typing mailbox names for every email I file.

One of the amazing things about email is how many different organizational strategies can be implemented, and I’m fully aware that what works for my situation would be suboptimal for others. :)

Cheers,
David

> On Jan 10, 2025, at 2:07 AM, Fredrik Jonsson <frjo at xdeb.org> wrote:
> 
> David Twist 2025-01-09 23:30 wrote:
> 
>> It would be a dream if the Move to Mailbox feature used a “frecency” algorithm to suggest mailboxes
> 
> I also used to sort messages to different mailboxes in my older e-mail clients.
> 
> With MailMate I found a better way, for me, of doing it.
> 
> All mail lands in the "Inbox". When I have read it I archive it so it end up in "Archive". No mailboxes, just dump it all in "Archive".
> 
> To find things I have set up smart mailboxes that completely replaces my old standard mailboxes.
> 
> Smart mailboxes are essentially saved searches so a lot more flexible, a mail message can e.g. show up in several boxes.
> 
> Fredrik
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