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Smart mailboxes and Rules

I am trying to create a rule so that the massive amounts of political email I receive go into one folder no matter which email address receives them. I had created a smart mailbox to receive them but discovered that they were not removed from the original email boxes. I then tried to create a rule to make that happened; however, when I try to select the destination mailbox, the smart mailbox is not listed. What is another way to complete this task? Thanks.

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 12.5

Posted on Oct 2, 2022 10:18 PM

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Barney-15E

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Posted on Oct 3, 2022 6:27 AM

A Smart Mailbox is a search, not an actual folder, so you can't add things to the Smart Mailbox unless you change the criteria. It doesn't move any messages; it just shows the results of the search in one location.

Create an actual Mailbox and set the rule to move the messages to that mailbox.

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