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Smart Mailboxes - not as smart as claimed?
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May 2, 2005, 06:14 AM
 
Minor quibble:



Unflagging a message will not remove it from a mailbox whose rule is (all flagged) - unless you move out of that mbox and back in.


Major problem:
I have a smart rule that simply isn't working, can anyone figure out if I got this wrong, or whether it's a bug:

I have a "Lists" mailbox (which contains many other mailboxes) - which is for all the mailing list emails I get.

I'd like to have an "all unread messages" mailbox - but excluding the messages in the "Lists" mailbox:



It seems to ignore the second condition completely...

Anyone have any ideas why?
     
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May 2, 2005, 06:20 AM
 
I've had this same problem. I made a Smart Mailbox with one line condition, pressed ok, and then ctrl-clicked the mailbox and did 'edit' and added more conditions. This worked once for me, maybe for you as well...

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May 2, 2005, 08:46 AM
 
Smart mailboxes are DUMB. The ability to create rules is so rudimentary that it is mostly useless.

Entourage X (2001) had much better filtering capabilities than Mail (2005). That's just said.

Why is it not possible to select for each line entry whether it is AND, NAND, OR, NOR etc.
Now THAT would be usefull.

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