Rule to move SENT mail to a folder

[tedesco24]

I send quite a bit of email from a specific email account, and manually move the SENT messages to a folder titled WORK RELATED. Is there a Mail rule that will move emails sent from a specific email account into a designated folder? Or will I need to continue manually movings the sent emails?

 

[Dave Braine]

If you are sending emails from a specific account, then there should be a corresponding Sent Mail That Account Name in the Sent folder in the Sidebar.

 

[Moakesy]

Click on Mail / Preferences / Rules / New Rule

Then set the following:

1) Where it says 'If any of the following conditions are met'....change the 'any' to 'all'
2) The From contains <your own email address in here>. I used johndoe@me.com. This isn't strictly necessary if you only have one email account you send emails from. If you have a private and a work email that you use, then put your work email address here.
3) Click the '+' to add a second condition
4) then 'To contains <your work email domain name, assuming it's the same>. I used @work_email.com
5) Then set the 'Perform following actions' and select the subfolder you want....

Something like this....




EDIT. - Just re-read your note, if you want ALL emails from you send form a specific work email account, then drop step 4. If you sometimes use your work account to send personal emails, then leave step 4 in, assuming you only send them to work colleagues.

 

[BrianBaughn]

The Mac Mail add on "Mail Act-On" can add the ability to apply rules to outgoing mail.

 

[Weaselboy]

I send quite a bit of email from a specific email account, and manually move the SENT messages to a folder titled WORK RELATED. Is there a Mail rule that will move emails sent from a specific email account into a designated folder? Or will I need to continue manually movings the sent emails?

Rules won't work because they only act on incoming messages.

I believe you could get what you want with a Smart MailBox like this. You can set a smart mailbox from the Mailbox menu in Mail. So when you click the smart mailbox it will show only those sent messages.

 

[JohnBaer]

Rules won't work because they only act on incoming messages.

I believe you could get what you want with a Smart MailBox like this. You can set a smart mailbox from the Mailbox menu in Mail. So when you click the smart mailbox it will show only those sent messages.

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In 2020, at least, this is not entirely true. Rules can run on Sent items in the Sent Folder. Unfortunately they don't apply automatically. After setting up rules as specified by Moakesy in post #3 above, you can:

1. manually select all of the sent messages in the Sent Folder
2. right click select Apply Rules

This will apply the rules to those messages and act accordingly to the rule specs.

Using a Smart Mailbox only allows filtering and gathering of the messages, not moving. So the messages are still subject to archival and deletion rules.