Is it possible to create rules in Mail outside of Preferences?

Thanks for your input - I understand how to use rules via preferences, but wondered if anybody had a shortcut within the Inbox window to create rules via a right-click command equivalent on a selected message, thus saving the time of having to go into Prefs/Rules, locate a folder, or create a new folder.

Anybody's further thoughts on this would be most welcome, even if it's a 'no - there is no other way of doing it outside of preferences'.

Thanks.

Hello all - still wondering if anybody has an answer to this question posed a while back. I'm guessing it must be an issue for many Mail users.

Comments welcome.

Thanks.

Thanks for your helpful suggestion andyBall_uk.

I've had a quick look at the second link you included (

http://www.andreasamann.com/MacOSX/Mail_Scripts)but the developer seems to have stopped updated the scripts since Mountain Lion, so I probably won't tangle with one of those as I use 10.8.3.

However I'm going to trial MailActOn and see how I get on. I'll update once I have had a play.

Thanks again - always grateful for constructive replies.

I've had a play with MailActOn which is great little application which I have now bought and I have found very useful for creating and applying rules while on the fly.

Thanks again for the suggestion