Smart Mailbox rules broken in 10.9

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.

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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.

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]** )
The third rule there combines both ALL and ANY rules. I have yet to see a mail application which supports this form of query in smart mailboxes, yet it seems like a perfectly normal use case (eg, find emails from team members A, B, or C, and which also have quality X).
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.
I want to automatically forward work emails to a colleague when they arrive.
Is there a way I can set up a rule to apply only to messages within one of the smart mailboxes?
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.

How can I get a view of what's not in any smart mailbox?

I want to see basically my inbox, only with all of the things being displayed in my smart mailboxes HIDDEN. I don't see an option for this. I tried creating a smart inbox, but there's no way to create the inverse of my smart mailboxes because the rules don't seem to allow it. Is there any way to do this or am I out of luck?
Thanks,
Jon

Thanks. Yeah, smart mailboxes being sort of filtered views of your INBOX makes good sense (references not copies as you say).
I could do what I want to do if there was either an option to hide stuff in the inbox that's in a smart mailbox OR if there were better smart mailbox rules for what to include. For example, if there was a "None" choice as well as "Any" and "All", I could create an Inbox2 that contains all the stuff that doesn't match any of the criteria for my other smart mailboxes. But it's not quite the smart. Also, I could make it work if you could include smart mailboxes in the rules themselves, but they only work with regular mailboxes. I can understand why that would not be a feature though.
Basically, smart mailboxes are great. BUT I want to use them to reduce the clutter of my inbox, not just see a view of it. So perhaps this is a feature request. I can't see how to do what I want to do...

Smart Mailbox not working correctly based on received date

I setup a smart mailbox with the condition:
Date Received is not in the last 1 year
I get plenty of messages where the date received was within the last year. Anyone know how to fix this problem.
Thanks in advance,
Roy

David needs to get extra points for slipping in the Princess Bride reference.
As he points out, this smart mailbox rule should exclude all messages not from THIS calendar year--2007. If you want all messages older than one year, do date received is not in the last 12 months, and it should give you what you want.
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Smart mailbox not working correctly

I just created a new Smart Mailbox (I have others that work fine) and the criteria I put in was not what I needed and so I edited it. After closing out my mail and then reopening it, my Smart Mailbox had reverted to the old criteria and showed no messages again. After doing this several times, I deleted the mailbox entirely and then recreated a new one with a different name. All was working fine UNTIL I closed my mail and the next time I opened it, it had reverted to the old Name and criteria and was not giving me any mail again b/c the criteria was wrong. Can anyone help?? I am OS X - Yosemite.

David needs to get extra points for slipping in the Princess Bride reference.
As he points out, this smart mailbox rule should exclude all messages not from THIS calendar year--2007. If you want all messages older than one year, do date received is not in the last 12 months, and it should give you what you want.
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"Recipient is a member of group" smart mailbox??

Hello,
I'd like all mails to and from a group to be collected in a smart mailbox. That option is not in the smart mailbox widget. Can anyone suggest a work around?
This would allow me, for example, to build a smart group (in Address Book) with a company name and automatically put all e-correspondence with that group in one smart `box.
Thanks,
Chris

If you create a smart mailbox and select meets conditions: ANY at the top you can: Add two rules:
1. Recipient - contains - <company.com>
2. From - contains - <company.com>
That's a work around that doesn't involve groups in the address book. I've found that mixing smart mailboxes rules and address book groups does not work well. Hope this helps.
Gordon

Question re: setting up smart mailboxes

I have a mailbox that is set to gather email with the following criteria - Any recipient contains [email protected], plus several other criteria. This is set up to gather important stuff so I don't miss it. Today I discovered a MAJOR problem with this. If a sender does not disclose the list of recipients, for example they are using BCC for a list, the email will not go to this smart mailbox. I nearly missed an email announcing the death of a very dear friend because of it!
So my question is this - is there any way to create a smart mailbox rule other than what's provided in the drop down selection boxes? I want to add a rule "received by [email protected]" so that I don't miss another crucial email.
thanks

Yes you should be seeing the logo, but everyone's getting the red X instead - it's a bug introduced by the 10.1.2 update (as is the appearance of the "i" icon at the top right, where we should have the templates menu icon) but it doesn't affect the function of the dialog. What appears on the left-side panel and in the Advanced tree depends on what's in the file - some have more XMP structure than others.

Create a smart mailbox for one one specific email account?

It has been a long time since I've been in these forums, I have to update my computer model, ha!
Anyway, I notice that when I create a smart mailbox, the specific instructions pertain to both my .Mac account and my gmail account which are set up in the Mail application. I would like to make the smart mailbox rules only apply to the gmail account, but I can not find a way to do this. Is this possible?
I would also like to only include messages from my gmail inbox in my smart mailbox, instead of sent messages etc.

you can't combine AND and OR conditions is a smart mailbox. I really don't know why. it's a big oversight IMO. you can do it in finder smart folders. you can try something weird like making one smart mailbox which satisfies the conditions you wnat about matching words . then make another smart mailbox with the condition that a message is in the first smart mailbox AND in gmail inbox.

Smart Mailboxes Recognizing BCC

Hello All,
I hope that somebody can help us.
We are trying to set up some smart mailboxes for members of a particular group at school. For each person we are wanting to see all the mail that has been sent to them and received from them.
Mails to the entire group are sent as BCC due to policy, and we would like the recipients of those mails to also be recognized by the smart mailbox rule and for a copy of that mail to be thus included in the smart mailbox for them.
It seems that the 'Any recipient' field and even the 'entire message' field do not recognize the contents of the BCC line.
Is this the case? and if so is there a way around this?
best regards
G and P

I can see who I BCC'ed in my mail messages that I have sent. So, while it may be true that BCC is gone from incoming email, it is there for sent email.
I found this thread because I am looking to make a smart mailbox on mail I've sent based on the BCC field.

Mail: ANY doesn't work in smart mailboxes or rules?

I want to create a smart mailbox that will copy and archive all messages to/from a particular recipient and e-mails to/from others about the subject of most of the conversation with that recipient. I want the archiving to happen as they arrive in my inboxes and not automatically remove them from the servers--some I still need on the servers to access from multiple locations/machines.
But I can't even get to the archiving issue: the smart mailbox that says 'contains ANY message' meeting these rules:
contains recipient1
contains subject2
always has fewer messages than one that simply 'contains recipient1' so the ANY condition, that in boolean terms should be an OR combination, appears to functionally act as an AND.
When I tried to create a smart mailbox folder to contain two mailboxes, one for contains name1 and one for contains subject2, each of which separately works fine, clicking the smart mailbox folder containing both leaves the window empty, so I can't see the messages name1 and subject2 interlaced in the date sent order or any other. I just get one group or the other by clicking the submailboxes.
And trying to bypass the problem using rules doesn't work either--the 'any' command is as dysfunctional there as it is in the smart mailbox dialog. I can manually search for the relevant terms (recipient1 and subject2) and option+drag them to a mailbox for archiving, but this results in many duplications, especially if repeated over time, not a happy result.
Some searching here and googling suggests that the ANY command is problematic in this OS for a lot of people, but is there a known fix? Or a better way to create a 'smart' archive to do what I want?

Okay, I think I understand better now. So I just ran a test, by creating the following rule:
I specifically chose an address (obviously not the one shown) that I had a message from in my Inbox, and a word that was present in the subject line of several messages in my Inbox. When I ran this rule on my Inbox, it copied exactly the messages I would have expected into the test mailbox. Are you seeing different behavior with the same rule, or is your rule constructed differently?
If the difficulty is with running the rule, note that (as I said earlier) rules only run automatically on unread incoming messages. It won't run automatically on existing messages or on messages on an IMAP mail server that you have read on another device using (in which case they will have been marked as read). If you need to run this in such conditions, you'll have to either run the rule manually or run it via an AppleScript or something similar that is somehow (via something other than Mail) made to execute at certain times/intervals or under certain conditions.
And you're correct, a smart mailbox would be totally inappropriate for what you're trying to do! It would behave exactly as you guessed.

Smart mailboxes: How to create a rule with an OR statement?

I have three different accounts in Apple Mail.app. I'd like to create a smart mailbox that shows just the sent messages from all three accounts in the past seven days. The rule begins with +Contains messages that match all of the following conditions+
1. The first part of the rule is +Date received is in last 7 days+
2. I hit the plus button to add another part, which is my first account email address +From is equal to [email protected]+ This works fine and displays all outgoing messages from that account for last seven days.
3. I again hit the plus button to add another part, which is my second account email address +From is equal to [email protected]+ Now nothing appears, which is because none of my messages have both addresses in the From field. If I change the match parameter to Any, then all messages, incoming and outgoing from the last seven days, appears.
So I'd like somehow to display all messages from all three accounts that have arrived in the last seven days. How can this be done? As an experiment I entered [email protected] OR [email protected]+ in the From is equal to field. That got me nowhere as well.
Any tips or advice on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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I compiled and runned this code on my machine and it works fine.
How did you did to compile and run this code ?
Did you put each code on its own file or all codes in the same file ?
I did like this:
I put each code in its own file and put all in the same dir, after I did:
javac -classpath . MainClass.java
After that, I did:
java -classpath . MainClass
I hope this help you
Lucas

How to use Flagged mailbox in rules for smart mailbox?

Since I installted ML I have a new mailbox called Flagged. In Lion I had a smart mailbox called Flagged which did the same.
I used this smart mailbox in Lion in rules of other smart mailboxes. The new mailbox Flagged in ML however can't be selected in a rule for a smart mailbox. It is in fact the only one I can't select.
Am I the only one facing this problem? If so, is there a solution for it?

The only use I've found so far for the Flagged messages is to be able to set different colours for different things and then use the preset mailbox to isolate and concentrate on them:
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Mail Rules vs Smart Mailbox

What is the difference between say making a rule in email that puts all your emails from a person in a mailbox called "Friend" vs creating a smart mailbox which puts all emails from that friend into a smart mailbox called "Friend"...
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Just as Barney said... A Smart Mailbox is just like having a permanent search going on. Say if you type in Johnny Appleseed in the search box of the Mail app in the upper right corner. Then all mail from JA will be visible. Make a Smart Mailbox to show all mails from JA, then that Smart Mailbox is doing that same search for you.
As for deleting, yes. If you delete a message from the Smart Mailbox, then you are deleting it from wherever it was. If it was in the Inbox, then it will be deleted. Again, simply because it's just a "Search box".
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