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Create manual-activation-only Mail.app rules Apps
One feature from Eudora that I've sorely missed in Mail is the manual rules. These rules would never be applied to incoming mail, but only be triggered when the user selected mail manually, then asked for a rules application. These were very handy for sorting mail in the Inbox after the fact, particularly if the user didn't want incoming mail sorted before it was read.

I sort my mailing list messages into folders before reading, just to keep things manageable, but my work and private mail needs to be more obvious. Given that the Mail Dock icon does not indicate when mail has been received unless it stays in the Inbox, on-receipt filtering isn't optimal for me. Also, I have three different IMAP servers interacting for my mail receipt and storage ... if I have a flaky connection to one or more, auto-filtering gets messy.

After griping about this One More Time, I decided to find out once and for all if it were possible to find a workaround. It is.

Create a rule in Mail -> Preferences -> Rules, and set it up however you'd like, but add one criteria: Date Received greater than 0 days. Now, any mail that is received is by definition at 0 days, so this rule fails. But selecting your Inbox and triggering rules via Message -> Apply Rules results in the rule being triggered for all mail over a day old. Close to the old Eudora behaviour, at least.
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Create manual-activation-only Mail.app rules
Authored by: @@ on Dec 15, '03 12:31:39PM

>Given that the Mail Dock icon does not indicate when mail has been received unless it stays in the Inbox…

MailEnhancer do this and more :

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13292

MailEnhancer is a mail bundle that enhances the operation of Apple's Mail application. It provides four enhancements which are detailed below. Each one can be turned on or off individually through a preferences panel.
Show activity viewer when doing a manual mail check
Display a status dialog after doing a manual mail check
Dock icon count shows all unread instead of just inbox unread
Automatically update signature to match sending address



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Authored by: astringer on Dec 16, '03 08:50:28PM

Is this hint only for 10.3? My criteria list in the 10.2 Create Rule window does not include the option "greater than" in the center drop-down list. It only includes:

Contains
Does not contain
Begins with
Ends with
Is equal to



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