A specific bug in Smart Mailbox Rules in Apple Mail on OS X Yosemite

Steps to reproduce:
- Define a Smart Mail Box rule as shown below in screenshot.
- Change the value 7 to 2. So it will be 2 months.
- Close the dialog box.
- Right click on Smart Mailbox and select Edit Smart Mailbox. The dialog still says 7. The 2 never Saves.
Looks like a bug in Apple Mail.

It's already a known bug.

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Ever since installing Mavericks, one of my Smart mailbox which shows emails in the last week with a Rule:
Date received, is this week
shows an empty mailbox.
Is this a known bug? There's lots of discussion around the GMail bugs, but this is a different issue.
Adam

Same problem here and this was working great with other versions.

Why are complex Smart Mailbox rules not available?

I wonder if this is a technical limitation in OSX Mail, or simply that Apple can't find a good way to present the UI.
Here are some rules I can create in OSX Mail for filtering or for smart mailboxes:
ALL rule: Find mails which are **in the last 31 days** AND **from [email protected]**
ANY rule: Find mails in the last month **from [email protected]** OR **from [email protected]**
Here's the rule I'd like to create, but can't:
COMPLEX rule: Find mails which are **in the last 31 days** AND ( **from [email protected]** OR **from [email protected]** )
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Smart mailboxes would be much more helpful if they were that little bit smarter.

if you are not into editing smart mailbox plists by hand you can esily accomplish this by creating multiple smart mailboxes and combining them into further smart mailboxes. say, make smart mailboxes 1 and 2 using a bunch of AND conditions and a smart mailbox 3 with the condition that a message is in smart mailbox 1 OR in smart mailbox 2. that said, it's really not clear why this has not been implemented into GUI directly. it's been like this for a very long time. that mac os x hint you found is 4 years old.

Smart mailbox rules

I have some smart mailboxes set up within my mail - to divide work emails from personal emails.
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Thanks

No. Rules only apply to messages in the inbox, as they arrive.
You can set up a rule to autoreply to that person, and it won't affect the display in the Smart Mailbox.
Also not, nothing is "in" a Smart Mailbox. It is just a display mechanism that shows you the results of a search. Nothing is moved into that mailbox.

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For me it's convenient to have a Smart Mailbox defined simply by "Message is new", as this collects together in one place all the unread messages that I've set rules to put in different mailboxes. While there is an option on the panel for defining Smart Mailboxes to include Trash or Sent in the smart-search, there is no such option to include the Junk mail folder, which I would like to do for a while until I believe it has "learned" well enough what I consider junk or not.
(Apple, take note: If Trash is an option, Junk should be, too!)
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Hello burkeware,
I suggest you send feedback to Apple by filling out the [Feedback Form|http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html>. Maybe they'll incorporate these options in a future version of Mail.
floba
PS: Concerning your "complex criteria". Have you already tried the boolean operators "or" and "not" in the search field? (BTW, two search strings are by default combined with the "and" operator, so there is no need for a separate "and".)
(MN312)
Message was edited by: floba

Bug with rules in Apple Mail

There is a bug when it comes to rules in Mail in 10.6.4 and 10.6.5 (and possibly earlier versions of Mail as well).
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1. Make sure you have an IMAP account in Mail.
2. In your IMAP account's Mailbox Behaviors, UNCHECK the box that says "Store draft messages on server". This ensures that your draft messages will be saved locally on your Mac instead of on your IMAP server.
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Hey, thanks to pputnam, I just figured out a workaround to this bug!!
Because pputnam figured out that the rule "Message Type Is Mail" DOESN'T trigger the bug, I just added that as a criteria to my rule and now the problem doesn't happen!
So now the criteria for my rule looks like this:
If "ALL" the following conditions are met:
"From contains (my email address)"
"Message Type is Mail"
That is the official workaround for this bug!
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The OS on my iMac is OS X v10.7.4. No issue setting up the smart mailboxes and they work fine until I restart the imac or restart the mail application. When I do this the all smart mailboxes (not folders) are gone. Can someone please point me to where I might look for resolution??

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Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData
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Services ▹ Open
from the contextual menu.* A folder window should open. From that folder, move the following files to the Desktop:
SmartMailboxesLocalProperties.plist
SyncedSmartMailboxes.plist
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Go ▹ Go to Folder...
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Creating Rule/Script to emulate Mailbox App in Apple Mail

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Hello there:
For some strange reason if I try to add a new e-mail address editing a rule, well, everything seems to be ok, until I click "Apply" and nothing happens.
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Federico (aka euskir)

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So far, in my case, no need to delete old rules, just to wait the new ones to be effective, and the two added were working ok.
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Here is a screenshot.
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Attachments problems with eudora mailbox imported to apple mail.

greetings,
i am considering moving from eudora to apple mail. i've done a test of importing one of the eudora mailboxes and am having a problem with the attachments.
the attachments to the messages in the eudora mailbox appear to be recognized by the apple mailtool. however, apple will not display the attachments. my test is with a mailbox i keep messages from a friend who travels a lot and sends me jpegs of his trips. the import gave no error messages.
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RULES of Apple Mail

Dear Guys,
HAPPY HOLIDAYS from Hong Kong.
I have a question about finding information on the RULES page. Right now, I have about 100+ entries on the RULES page. Everytime I want to edit a specific entry, I have to scroll down the whole list slowly to find that entry with my own aging eyes. The FIND function is simply of no use on the RULES page.
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