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Sol Hill

Q: Can you add more than one condition set to Mail 9 Rules so two sets of conditions must be met?

I want to set more than one condition set for Mail rules.

For example I want to set these two condition sets

1. "If the sender is NOT in my address book"

and

2. "if any of the following conditions are met:"  where I would follow with a bunch of conditions like "If message content contains:" and a bunch entries with words like "subscribed", "unsubscribe", "having trouble with this email", "subscribe", "you are receiving this email because", "mail chimp", "constant contact" etc. etc. etc.

 

The reason I want to do this is that currently I can only set one condition set:  If <ANY> of the following conditions are met:  followed by the above list and then some.  The problem is way too many emails that are from people in my address book get dumped into my BCN folder, a folder I set up to catch all the form emails I receive from businesses, organizations and political groups that email me and from whom I do not want to totally unsubscribe from, but cannot stand having clutter my inbox all the time.   The worst is when people who respond to my newsletter get filtered because the "unsubscribe" link appears in the copied part of my outgoing email in their reply gets moved to the BCN folder.   If I can apply a second condition set such as "if the sender is <NOT> in my address book" AND "If <ANY> of the following conditions are met:" then I can reduce the false positives.

 

I have emailed a request to Apple many times over many years to expand mail rules capacity to allow this, but they never seem to.  I would like to know if this has been done in Mail 9 in El Capitan.

 

Sol Hill

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Jan 24, 2016 2:36 PM

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Q: Can you add more than one condition set to Mail 9 Rules so two sets of conditions must be met?

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  • by Duane,

    Duane Duane Jan 24, 2016 2:54 PM in response to Sol Hill
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    Jan 24, 2016 2:54 PM in response to Sol Hill

    Have you tried the following:

    1. Create a rule to check if the sender is in your contacts and then stop evaluating rules.
    2. Make that rule the first rule in the list of rules.
    3. Then create rules to address your other conditions and make sure that is below the rule above.

     

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