Smart Mailboxes

[Jayzz]

Just playing around with smart mailboxes to organise my emails.

I have set a couple up and the correct mails go to the correct smart mailbox, but they also remain in my inbox. Also when i tried deleting them from the inbox they were also deleted from the smart mailbox.

Am I doing something wrong, or is that just how it works? I'm just trying to have them be automatically moved to the desired smart mailbox and not in inbox.

 

[AdeFowler]

Smart mailboxes are like smart playlists in iTunes; they don't move anything. I have a Smart mailbox to show all mail in the last three days.

A normal mailbox and rule will move the message.

 

[Jayzz]

So if I create a normal mailbox with a rule I can have mails go straight to that mailbox without it remaining in inbox?

If so, can you tell me how I make a rule for the normal mailboxes?

 

[AdeFowler]

Exactly.

Create a Mailbox and give it a name (ebay for example). (Mailbox > New Mailbox)

Go to Mail Preferences > Rules and click Add Rule
Give the rule a name

Select > From and Contains and the type (for example @ebay)
Now select the action 'Move Message' and select the ebay mailbox that you created.

Good luck

 

[Jayzz]

Appreciate it. Thank you.