(I'm sure I got an answer to this once before, but it's not in My Stuff, so here goes):
I want to tidy a huge Mail Inbox by moving a lot of easily postponable stuff to a Smart Mailbox. I've set up the SM by setting rules for the From field. Now it's populated with a load of emails. But they are also still in my Inbox!! How can I MOVE messages to the SM instead of COPY?
iMac G5 2.5GB RAM-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Smart Mailboxes are not mailboxes, they are a set of fiters that affect what you see in there, the mail itself never moved, or copied.
Smart Mailboxes are not mailboxes, they are a set of fiters that affect what you see in there, the mail itself never moved, or copied.
So how do I set up a rule to MOVE things from my Inbox, other than via a Smart Mailbox? I don't want to do this manually.
Mail>Preferences>Rules, define the criteria for the rule, define the destination, choose move or copy, it's quite simple.
Yeah "Smart" boxes are just pointers to mails of certain criteria, you need to create other real Mailboxes & make rules as Csound1 points out. 🙂
Will that dynamically move the emails from then on without me having to take further action? And will it move existing messages out of my Inbox?
christopher rigby1 wrote:
Will that dynamically move the emails from then on without me having to take further action? And will it move existing messages out of my Inbox?
Yes and yes
MOVE to Smart Mailbox, not COPY
