Thursday 21 January 2010

Smart Mailboxes in Apple Mail

Smart Mailboxes in Apple's Mail are cool! I have set up an In & Sent smart mailbox which shows me all my incoming and sent messages, grouped by thread. Here's how to set it up:

First, create a Smart Mailbox:

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Then and add all Inboxes and Sent mailboxes from the email accounts you use. Choose the rule 'Message is in Mailbox' for every entry as I did in the example below.

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Next, drag the Smart Mailbox to the top in sidebar. Then you have it at hand all the time.

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And last, set the view to Threaded:

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