10.5: Create even smarter Mail smart folders

Nov 27, '07 02:30:06PM

Contributed by: sys0p

I have rules that sort some mails (e.g. Forums) into a folder on my Mac. The problem: I wanted to set up a smart folder that shows all Mails in Forums that have either MacOSXhints or Macnn in their contents.

So in 10.5's Mail, I set up a Smart folder with these rules:

Now this may sound obvious to some, but for me it was great to see that you can create more complex rules for smart folders. I guess it's related to the new Spotlight features in 10.5 that allows the use of AND and OR expressions.

[robg adds: In 10.4, you had to create three smart mailboxes to pull off something like this; the fact that Mail uses the new Spotlight engine now makes it much simpler.]

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