[MlMt] Another question about rules

[Henry Seiden]

How are your Rules set up and organized? As stated in the MM Help and the full Manual, “You can add rules to any mailbox. Each rule is a set of conditions and a set of actions. Rules are only triggered when a message is added to a mailbox which most often happens when a new message arrives in an account. You can apply rules to the selected messages of a mailbox by using “Mailbox ▸ Apply Rules”.

In my case however, I create each rule as it’s own Smart Mailbox and use the settings (Mailbox, Conditions, Rules) tabs within it to apply the rule to whatever Source Mailbox is needed to be acted upon by the rule.

E.G. an action to delete certain messages can be built to apply to one or more Source Mailbox accounts in this way (not just one) and changed with the Rule’s settings.

Also I nest all Rules in Smart Mailboxes within the All Message Filters>ALL/Junk/Deleted folders where the messages are ‘picked’. Have a look [at these default folders’ organizational screenshot](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UgI_b04tU2BIBFXNoXPJ8c3nrc6l0ioY&usp=drive_fs) on my G-Drive. You can see the nesting there.

As others have explained, that Smart Mailbox Rule can be set by its own folder selection and conditions tabs to create a rule action that then evaluated for each email as it arrives in the rule’s mailbox. Don’t forget to label the Smart Mailbox Rule to keep it straight.

**Another example**: One of my server accounts identifies a set of emails sorting them as spam, then saving them to a “spam” mailbox outside of local control. A MailMate rule moves these to a different Junk Mailbox where further processing is done to delete them (with other junk mail) in a given time frame. I found it easier to organize the rule in the same way - standalone.

Respectfully,

Henry Seiden
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On 15 Mar 2025, at 22:48, Randy Abbott wrote:

> Is there a way to import/export a rule from one mailbox to another? Thank you!_______________________________________________
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