Excluding messages from Smart Mailboxes

Vishal,

then you need two smart mailboxes (SBs).

The first one collects all messages with your conditions (arrived in the last 7 days or flagged).

The second SB has two conditions:
1. "E-Mail in mailbox" "your 1st_smartmb" and
2. "Sender is member of group" "your_group" (group without Chris).

Maybe it's a good idea to create a folder for smart mailboxes and put these two SBs into that folder.

PS: I translated the conditions from German. The appropriate condition in your Mail.app might be called different.

Vishal,

you could set up a group in address book and exclude Chris from that group.

Now create a smart mailbox with condition "Sender is member of group" set to your group in address book. Add additional conditions as you like.

Jeffrey,

in a smart mailbox you can only define that it contains e-mails meeting either "one" or "all" criterions.

So, Vishal set up a smart mailbox that contains all e-mail meeting one of the criterions "arrived in the last 7 days" or "flagged".

If he now adds "From does not contain Chris", he gets all mails not from Chris. These are however not necessarily those arrived in the past 7 days or those flagged.

I use Mail.app with an exchange server and there is a collection of "public" folders which I never read. Currently there are over 22,000 (not kidding!) unread emails in that folder. Because I cannot filter out this collection of mailboxes (not a single folder, but everything within "Public") it makes it impossible to use a Smart Mailboxes for collecting new messages productively in this enironment.

I wish there was a guide on how-to modify and/or tap the power of these smart folders.

Thanks!

Axelfoo,

I don't have access to an exchange server. Thus I don't know if this really works:

Create a smart mailbox with condition "E-Mail not in mailbox". Choose your exchange public folder from the appearing list.

Hello Vishal.

I don't believe so.

I'm using a "Received Today" Smart Mailbox and there is not an available option to exclude a sender, etc.

Maybe I don't understand the difficulty? Just add a criterion "From does not contain Chris".