Filtered (rules) messages and mail ...

Question

Hi ~
My screen name "never-mac?" comes from the fact that - as a 25+ year PC user - I said "I'll never get a MAC!!" Never say never!! I bought a MACBOOK for home (to avoid the VISTA experience,) and requested an iMAC for my new work computer.
All that being said, here's my "filtered" mail problem:
On my PC, I used Eudora for my email client; and, filtered messages would automatically forward to the selected mailbox. BUT ... when that happened, the appropriate mailbox would "open" on the status bar. Then, I could look at the message, and determine - immediately - whether or not to read it right away.
On my iMAC and/or MACBOOK, filtered messages are automatically forwarded and I hear a sound that I received mail. BUT, I have no clue which mailbox - of many, especially at work - has the "new" mail in it .... without searching every mailbox.
So, my specific question is .... Is there any way to tell Mail to highlight and/or open the mailbox that just received the filtered message?
Any advice that anyone can give me will be greatly appreciated!! I LOVE my new MAC's; but, "it takes a while to teach an old dog new tricks."
Thanks!!!

Answer 1

Hi “never-mac?”
Not sure what your problem really is. Unless you’re telling your rules to mark the messages as read, you should be able to easily identify which mailboxes have unread messages in them because they show the number of unread messages to the right of the mailbox name.
Also, you could set up a Smart Mailbox that shows all your unread messages, no matter where they are...