I'm trying to find Mail.app rules enhancements...

...that make the rules act more like the filters in Eudora. Except for this issue, I am so happy I switched, but Eudora has three functions that I wish I had in Mail.app:
1. Eudora filters are marked as old if they haven't been activated in a period of time (I think 30 days.) This way you can delete filters that aren't necessary and you can keep your filters list managable. Especially good for filters that I create to combat spam, which changes all the time and renders some of my filters obsolete.
2. Within Eudora filters you can can have more complicated boolean conditions... Mail.app only gives you the choice of "all" conditions in a rule or "any" (all "and" or all "or",) whereas Eudora let me use both "or" AND "and" to create a more precise filter. I constantly wish I had that.
3. In Eudora there's a hot key to automatically create a rule on the fly, as opposed to Mail.app which requires you to open up the preferences every single time.
Am I missing something? Please tell me if I can activate features like this through some special voodoo on the app, or if there are plug ins or enhancements that I can download... but this is becoming a real drag. I spend so much more time futzing with the rules in Mail.app, tweaking them to make them work right than I ever did with Eudora. I almost tempted (gasp) to go back...
  Mac OS X (10.4.5)  

I second John's mention of JunkMatcher for fighting spam - I use it and don't need any custom rules to weed out spam any more.
As for your third point - you might want to check out the Create Rule script available as part of Mail Scripts - it might prove a little easier way to set up a new rule based on the currently selected Mail (and you will be able to invoke it from the script menu):
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/
Andreas

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