Easily creating nested folders in Mail

Aug 09, '05 08:47:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

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:

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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