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See on-the-fly 'or' Smart Mailbox views in Mail Apps
As you may be aware, by using the Command key modifier in Mail.app, you can select multiple mailboxes at once. This feature extends Smart Mailboxes, too, and that turns out to be quite useful in some circumstances.

For example, I have one Smart Mailbox set up that shows all messages from "John," and another from "Mary", two work colleagues. By selecting both of these mailboxes, I can see all messages from John or Mary, which is often useful. Another possibility would be All Unread Messages with All Today's Messages -- the possibilities are limited only by your imagination, and the scope of your Smart Mailboxes, of course!

[robg adds: This is a fast way to build a one-time "or" message list; if you want to build "and" combinations, you'll need to create a new Smart Mailbox set to match "all" following conditions. You can then set the first pop-up field to 'Message is in Mailbox' or 'Message is not in Mailbox' and specify other existing Smart Mailboxes using the second pop-up field. This hint contains an additional tip for creating more powerful Smart Mailboxes in 10.5.]
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See on-the-fly 'or' Smart Mailbox views in Mail
Authored by: asmeurer on Oct 16, '08 08:08:13AM

In case anyone is confused by the word "or," it means the boolean OR, which is true if either one is true and if both are true. I mention this because "or" in English is often used to mean exclusive or (XOR), which isn't true if both are true, and the word "and" in English might mean what the author intended "or" to mean, to some people.

Just think of it in terms of Apple's own terminology as matching any of the items.



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