Smart Mailbox configuration

Hello everybody,


I've just started to use smart mailbox on my MacBook Pro, running High Sierra IOS.

After going through mail, and moving it to folders, how can I make it disappear from the smart mailbox? It just keep coming back after a short disappearance, although marked as read.


It must be a way to move it after read and not being it in the smart mailbox!


Tks for the help.


Diogo

MacBook Pro, macOS High Sierra (10.13.4)

Posted on Jun 6, 2018 4:45 AM

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Posted on Jun 6, 2018 2:05 PM

A Smart Mailbox doesn't store messages. They are not moved into it.

What you see is the search results that match the criteria you set. When you move something from a Smart Mailbox, you are moving it from the mailbox where it resides into another Mailbox. The search will still find that message because your search criteria doesn't limit which Mailboxes it searches.


If you move messages to an "archive" mailbox, add that mailbox to the criteria as:

Message is not in Mailbox archive

You can add as many of those as you need.

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Jun 6, 2018 2:05 PM in response to diogoosousa

A Smart Mailbox doesn't store messages. They are not moved into it.

What you see is the search results that match the criteria you set. When you move something from a Smart Mailbox, you are moving it from the mailbox where it resides into another Mailbox. The search will still find that message because your search criteria doesn't limit which Mailboxes it searches.


If you move messages to an "archive" mailbox, add that mailbox to the criteria as:

Message is not in Mailbox archive

You can add as many of those as you need.

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