Using Smart Mailboxes and Message is not in Mailbox rule
On my PowerBook G4 I had setup Smart Mailboxes called "In Contacts" and "Not In Contacts". Basically,
1) inside of Address Book, setup a Smart Group call "Has an email address" where the only rule is "Email: Is set". This gives you an automatically updated group of every one of your contacts with an email address
2) inside of Mail, setup a Smart Mailbox called "In Contacts" where the only rule is "Sender is a member of group: Has an email address". So everytime you get an email from someone in your address book it should showup in your new Smart Mailbox
3) inside of Mail, setup another Smart Mailbox called "Not In Contacts" where the only rule is "Message is not in Mailbox: In Contacts". This basically splits your inbox into two Smart Mailboxes, one for people in your contacts and one for people who aren't.
The benefits of this were great b/c it works like a spam filter and also forces you to keep your address book up to date. Really loved it.
Anyway, as far as I can tell it still works on PowerPC version of Mail, but on my new Macbook Pro, and on my parents Intel iMac, step #3 doesn't work because Smart Mailboxes aren't visible when setting up the "Message is not in Mailbox" rule.
Is this just a Intel vs PowerPC bug? Is there a better or different way to achieve the same solution? I really miss it. Any thoughts appreciated!
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)
1) inside of Address Book, setup a Smart Group call "Has an email address" where the only rule is "Email: Is set". This gives you an automatically updated group of every one of your contacts with an email address
2) inside of Mail, setup a Smart Mailbox called "In Contacts" where the only rule is "Sender is a member of group: Has an email address". So everytime you get an email from someone in your address book it should showup in your new Smart Mailbox
3) inside of Mail, setup another Smart Mailbox called "Not In Contacts" where the only rule is "Message is not in Mailbox: In Contacts". This basically splits your inbox into two Smart Mailboxes, one for people in your contacts and one for people who aren't.
The benefits of this were great b/c it works like a spam filter and also forces you to keep your address book up to date. Really loved it.
Anyway, as far as I can tell it still works on PowerPC version of Mail, but on my new Macbook Pro, and on my parents Intel iMac, step #3 doesn't work because Smart Mailboxes aren't visible when setting up the "Message is not in Mailbox" rule.
Is this just a Intel vs PowerPC bug? Is there a better or different way to achieve the same solution? I really miss it. Any thoughts appreciated!
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)
