Filtering my incoming mail using alias

Hello,
I've just set up an alias on my mail account so I can use a different address for online shopping etc. I've set up a smart mailbox for these messages to go into but they still appear in my main mail box. How can I filter them so they only appear in a separate mail box? I don't want the mails for my alias and those for my main address all mixed up together...

Greetings and welcome,
The problem you are having is with using smart mailboxes. The smart mailbox only has links in it. What you need to do is set up rules that actually move your mail into regular mailboxes. Set up a standard mailbox rather than a smart one, and then have the rule move the mail into that mailbox.

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Michael,
If there is specific information you are after, then
it would be helpful to request that information
instead of just being short and snide.
You're assuming too much here. I don't know what the problem really is, not even whether there is a solution. To express in your own terms a different way to look at the situation, if there is a specific solution anyone here is after, then it would be helpful to provide all the relevant information instead of assuming that people willing to help is going to be able to guess what the problem really is...
And I don't need you to give me permission to believe what I want.
I haven't. Actually, what I've done is precisely acknowledging that.
His post was basically saying "Is anyone else out there having
trouble redirecting mail with a rule? If so... is there a solution?"
In other words, since I don't have that problem, and I don't even know what the problem really is, I should rather not have asked, right?
If I had other rules doing things with the messages that MIGHT
interefere with the process, I would have mentioned that.
Glad to know. Problem is, I'm confused now. What you said above made me believe that I should ask any specific questions I might have. Now, you seem to be saying that if no additional information was provided, that means I should assume that there is nothing else that could be relevant to the problem, and hence I shouldn't ask obviously redundant and unnecessary questions. Could you please clarify this?
Also, how was I supposed to know that this was the case? Should I assume that for every user that posts about a problem or only for you? If the latter, did I miss something that should have made me realize that was the case for you?
I'm not sure how to proceed now. I can honestly tell you that I still don't know what the problem is, nor whether it can be fixed. There is something about the fact that you're using a Gmail account that makes me wonder, but you've clearly stated below that I should go somewhere else if the information already provided isn't enough, so it seems the right thing to do here is to avoid wasting your time with stupid questions.
If this is not enough information for you...
then help someone else with their problem.
That's what I do, each and every day...
But just because you assume user error, doesn't mean
someone else hasn't found a solution to the problem that
3 of us have explained.
I'm not assuming anything. That's what I'm trying to tell you, that I don't really know what's going on. I'm just trying to understand the problem in case I or someone else that, as a result of the discussion, finds a better description of what the problem really is, can help. If you feel that's not appropriate and I should have tried to help only if I already knew what the problem is and how to fix it, I apologize for having wasted your time.
Oh! And I'm not sure the problem is the same in all the cases being discussed here either.
Regards.

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You might have done that already, but just in case.
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Hi there
I have been using MAC mail for a couple of years. My incoming email stopped all of a sudden a few weeks ago. I have deleted and reset my account on a few occassions with settings as supplied by my ISP (tiscali). It is a POP account. I can send email so outgoing server seems OK.
I am able to log in to tiscali webmail and retrieve my incoming email.
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You may need to use the information in this article to help you troubleshoot the issue with your outgoing server:
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3276
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Sabine,
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Error when reciving mail with alias

Hy,
In my SAP system I am able to send and recive emails already. But in some cases the incoming mail is refused.
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case 1)
mail to user#domain.com => results in connection dropped by remote host
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501 Syntax error
case 2)
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501 Syntax error
case 3)
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TIA

Wrong forum try this forum:
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