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Move Mail messages to named folders via AppleScript
Couldn't you do the same thing with a few rules in Mail.app itself? Using applescript is nifty and all, but this seems like a lot of extra work.
Move Mail messages to named folders via AppleScript
I thought the same thing at first. I guess the advantage this script has is that you don't have to go through the process of making new rules -- you just make a new mailbox and the script does its thing.
Not auto-filtering...
The advantage here is that this is not filtering all incoming e-mail to boxes. Rather, all new mail goes to your INBOX and then you can select a whole bunch of messages after you've read them and it will auto-file them for you. This is more along the lines I like to work (and have for many years). I have too many folders to do any auto-filtering of anything but what I can safely ignore for a week or so (which, like you say is what Rules are good for).
Not auto-filtering...
You got it right, the organising by sender is how I archive my email. Mind you, I do this for personal email only. At work I organize topic-based, but I use Outlook@Windows there. Organizing personal email by topic doesn't work properly if you ask me. But your suggestion for easily adding categories or whatever is a much wanted feature for Mail.app.
Not auto-filtering...
I agree with your division between work and home. I have a few topic based personal discussion folders for friends, but not many. I'd envision 'smart' folders to allow you to match on any header so you could mix and match individual and topic based folders.
Smart Mailboxes
Well, do you really care how it's stored? The way information is displayed and the way information is stored very often has nothing to do with eachother. For instance, only because our harddisks are supplied with a file allocation table can we find information on them. The bytes are stored in one long 'line', or actually 'everywhere' (which is what the defragmenting apps fix for us) ...
So I guess if such Smart Mailboxes existed, we could just make a structure of folders we think suits our individual needs. And Mail.app could just leave all messages in one big mailbox for all I care. I'll leave it to those amazing Apple programmers to figure out how to deal with a mailbox several GB in size :-) Hmm, perhaps I should download Zoe and see what that is all about. This seems to address at least part of our needs. Check it out at http://www.zoe.nu/. Let me know what you think via a personal message (does this forum allow personal messages? i dunno...) For those who are wondering why creating mailboxes and Smart Mailboxes is not the same: sometimes you want to look at data from several angles; for instance: sorted by sender, or by subject, or by date, or by domainname, or by mailclient, or by attachments. The way we look at data changes constantly. What Matt and I (and many others) are going on about is facilitating this constant change without copying email messages to 15 different folders everytime one arrives. --- |
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