Smart folders and drag&drop

Morning.
Is there a way to create a smart folder and then drag&drop some emails into this smart folder, so that I can find in this folder all emails I've collected in it without that these emails are moved out of their respective original mailbox?
This would be very usefull to merge emails without a special evident unique attribute but with similarity given by the user.
Do you know, what I mean?
TIA and kind regards, Friedrich

vatolin wrote:
V.K. wrote:
no. smart folders are … saved searches.
That's understood. Is there any other approach to catch my concern to collect e-mails in one place without move them out of their original place and without to duplicate them?
no, it has to be a smart folder to do something like that.
Otherwise I think I'll set a keyword in MailTags and create a smart folder that catches all items including the keyword.
That's probably your best bet.
TIA and kind regards, Friedrich

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