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Easily creating nested folders in Mail Apps
When creating a local mailbox in Mail.app, if you put a forward slash in the mailbox name, it will create subfolders. The words you put between the slashes determine the level of the folder in the heirarchy. For example:
  • a/b/c will create mailbox c within b within a.
  • a/b/d will create mailbox d in the same folder as c.
Quite a timesaver if you organise mail by date.

[robg adds: This is documented in Mail's help (click the question mark in the New Mailbox dialog), but not everyone may have read that. Also, I thought this might be a duplicate, but I couldn't find it in a quick search, so please let me know if I missed it somehow...]
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Easily creating nested folders in Mail
Authored by: gshenaut on Aug 09, '05 01:11:04PM

By default, new mail folders are created relative to the currently selected folder in the current mailbox. That is, if Letters/Family is the current folder, then if you create a new folder Helen, it will actually appear as Letters/Family/Helen. If you do not want the new folder to be a subfolder, then prepend a slash: /Helen and then it will be at the top level in the currently selected mailbox. (This can be combined with the original hint: /Helen/College will create Helen at the top level and College under it.)

Greg Shenaut



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Easily creating nested folders in Mail
Authored by: rbrough on Aug 09, '05 02:17:18PM

Thanks for the hint - I have been doing this the hard way...

Does anyone know if there is a way to make a "top" folder that will include all the mail from the subfolders, in the way that the Inbox shows the content of all the individual inboxes (I have my .mac, my gmail, and a work-related one!)

In other words, if I have a "Family" folder, which contains "Helen" and "Spud" subfolders (from the above reply), I could see all of Helen & Spud's email by clicking on Family, or only Helens by clicking Helen.

R



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Easily creating nested folders in Mail
Authored by: danieleran on Aug 09, '05 05:54:01PM

You could use smart folders, or simply Apple click on the folders you want to view together. When you select multiple folders, they are displayed together, as noted in a recent hint.

This way, you can look at .Mac+Gmail, or Gmail+Other or all three, without creating various sets of smart folders. You can also select both Inbox and Sent, and see the message flow in both ways (that was the point of the earlier hint).



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Easily creating nested folders in Mail
Authored by: encro on Aug 10, '05 11:51:37AM

Rob:

This is almost a duplicate of the following :)
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2004020506354295



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Easily creating nested folders in Mail
Authored by: osxpounder on Aug 16, '05 02:42:35PM

I just discovered, as I tried whether this would work in Panther's Finder, that Finder will allow a folder a name with a forward slash in it [instead of Finder creating nested folders for me]. I don't know how to feel about that -- but I do think it's weird [and probably a bad idea].

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