Sort Mail's sent mail into folders via rules
Mar 19, '03 10:06:00AM
Contributed by: robg
If you want Mail.app to put away in specific mailboxes not just the messages you receive, but your Sent messages as well, you're out of luck. It has to be done manually, but at least you can use Rules for it. Instead of defining a Rule with the "From" header, add a "To or From" header to the default headers. Amazingly, this works.
- Make a new Rule (or edit an existing one) in Preferences
- From the popup menu with criteria, choose "Edit Header List..."
- Define a new header called "To or From" and close the Edit Header sheet
- Now select "To or From" instead of "From" as the matching criterium for any Rule
- Add additional criteria as desired, including destination folder
- Save the rule and close the rules window.
When your Sent mailboxes is getting crowded, select all messages in it and choose Apply Rules to Selection in the Message menu (option-command-L), and messages you sent to your girlfriend will be put in the same mailboxes that contain messages you received from her.
This hint was emailed to me by Hiram -- thanks!
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