When handling a new message in the Inbox, the basic decision to make is whether it should be archived or trashed. These are virtual mailboxes which show messages which belong to a specified set of mailboxes and which match some set of conditions. MailMate encourages the use of so-called “smart” mailboxes. One mailbox for each identity used as a from address.
Note: The mailbox for “Sent Messages” has an additional level of mailboxes if an account has multiple addresses. MailMate will move the messages such that they each stay within their original IMAP account. Universal mailboxes can be used as targets for moving messages. This mailbox is often set in smart mailboxes as the source mailbox. This means that it combines messages from “Inbox”, “Drafts”, “Sent”, “Archive”, and any additional IMAP mailboxes in your accounts. The mailbox “All Messages” is a special mailbox which contains all messages in your IMAP accounts except those that are in the mailboxes used for deleted messages or junk. It is possible to expand these mailboxes if one wants to see which messages are in which account. If you have multiple IMAP accounts configured, then these mailboxes are universal, that is they unify mailboxes of a given type across multiple IMAP accounts. There is also a mailbox named “Archive” which is intended for archiving messages in a separate IMAP mailbox. Each IMAP account may have only one mailbox of each type, although the actual name can vary from IMAP account to IMAP account. They cannot be changed, because they have a standard purpose, as implied by their names. The MAILBOXES section includes a set of standard mailboxes: “Inbox”, “Drafts”, “Sent Messages”, “Junk”, and “Deleted Messages”. Again, filtering and abbreviations are supported. You can move selected messages to any (IMAP) mailbox using “Move to Mailbox…” (⌥⌘T). Holding down ⇧ opens a new window with the mailbox selected. Holding down ⌥ when selecting a mailbox opens the mailbox editor. Without filtering, the list is sorted such that the most recently used mailbox is at the top. Advanced filtering is supported and your favorite abbreviations for mailboxes are cached. This opens a window listing all mailboxes. You can change the currently selected mailbox using “Go to Mailbox…” (⌘T). By default, most mailboxes inherit the type of count from the parent mailbox. You can change the displayed count of messages for a mailbox (unread, flagged, …). For all mailbox types the following is useful to know: MailMate supports 3 kinds of mailboxes which are described in the following subsections. The basic means of organizing email is through the use of mailboxes.
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