Using Mail smart mailboxes

Question

I know this sounds a bit silly, but how do I save messages to my smart mailboxes (an idiots guide would be helpfull)
Thank you in advance

Answer 1

Hi Stephen
You can't actually save messages in a Smart Mailbox.
Think of a Smart Mailbox as a view (or a filter) of all of your emails, ie your Sent, Inbox, Drafts, Trash, Junk etc.
When you create a Smart Mailbox you set up the filters or criteria that you want to use to screen all of your mail and the emails meeting those criteria "show up" in the Smart Mailbox.
as an example I have set one up with your name
the parameters set would show all the email that either come from "[email protected]" or have the phrase "Smart Mailboxes" in the Subject line.
You can add as many "rules" as you like using the + sign (or remove them ising the - sign) so the filters can be very specific.
Remember the drop down on the second line "Any" or "All" if you set "All" the email would have to have to match all of the parameters.
The example above would show all emails from [email protected] as well as any emails (from anyone) with the phrase "Smart Mailboxes" in the Subject line. If you chose "All" it would only show the emails from [email protected] with "Smart Mailboxes" in the Subject line.
Hope that helps