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10.4: Build complex booleans in Mail with Smart Folders
One note about this hint: I tried this idea right after Tiger was released, and it didn't seem to work, so I gave up on it. The problem was that the criteria in the third Smart Folder (the one that combines the other two with an Or -- the equivalent of CocoaMailingList in the original entry) always changed themselves to the equivalent of
Mail always seemed to switch them to:
which obviously just gave me the same messages as in the original Cocoa mailbox, and none of the ones in Cocoa2. I assumed this was just a bug and hoped it would be fixed with 10.4.1. When it wasn't, I looked a bit closer, and discovered what the bug is. My problem originated with the fact that I'd made my second mailbox (Cocoa2) by duplicating the first (Cocoa) -- i.e., by option-dragging Cocoa within the mailbox panel. (I did this because I have several junk and mailing-list folders that I didn't want to include in either Cocoa or Cocoa2, so rather than re-enter all of those for both mailboxes I just copied the whole Smart Mailbox). As it turns out, when you duplicate a Smart Mailbox, Mail duplicates it perfectly -- including the supposedly-unique The bottom line here is, if you're combining Smart Mailboxes in the way suggested by the original hint, don't make any of the mailboxes by duplicating already-existing mailboxes. In fact, you should probably avoid duplicating Smart Mailboxes altogether to avoid unpredictable effects of having duplicate |
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