[Users] Moving from Mac Mail to Claws - Smart Mailboxes

[Olivier Brunel]

On Mon, 1 May 2017 21:51:06 +0100
John Pollard <john at pollardweb.com> wrote:

> That sounds interesting. Would new emails arriving be able to combine
> with a vfolder of flagged and unread emails? It probably wouldn’t
> work for me if you have to manually run a new search to update that
> vfolder.

virtual folders have an autorefresh option, so upon new mail in a
source folder the search is re-run automatically, therefore new mails
would show up both in the source folder (e.g. inbox) and the vfolder
automatically.

 
> That patch with mairix might start to close the gap on Mac Mail smart
> mailbox and fast indexed searches.
> 
> Is Claws likely to adopt this vfolder patch into the main release in
> the future do you know?

no idea, doesn't seem like there's much interest (from dev team) though.


> Many thanks,
> John
> 
> > On 1 May 2017, at 20:59, Olivier Brunel <jjk at jjacky.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 1 May 2017 13:44:22 +0100
> > John Pollard <john at pollardweb.com <mailto:john at pollardweb.com>>
> > wrote: 
> >> Hi list,
> >> 
> >> I have had a look at Filtering in Claws, but am unclear if I can
> >> achieve the following…
> >> 
> >> In Mac Mail I use a Smart Mailbox to show me all unread emails
> >> (from any of 10 email accounts) and flagged emails. This is often
> >> less than 20 emails and are just those I need to work with; I find
> >> it a very efficient way to keep on top of emails. A Smart Mailbox
> >> is just a view onto a set of messages, it doesn’t involve any
> >> messages being moved or duplicated, they still live in their
> >> original mailboxes / folders.  
> > 
> > Nothing in claws, but there's a patch[1] that adds a plugin for
> > virtual folders, which are basically search results. So you could
> > have one that shows all unread & flagged mails, even from different
> > mailboxes.
> > 
> > Of course you'll have to patch/compile claws yourself to use it...
> > 
> > HTH,
> > 
> > 
> > [1]
> > http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2017-February/018660.html
> > <http://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2017-February/018660.html>
> > 
> >   
> >> It the Mac Mail toolbar, I have a Flag button I can click very
> >> quickly when I read an email that is important but I will deal with
> >> later, which ensures it doesn’t disappear from my Smart Mailbox
> >> until I unflag it.
> >> 
> >> Is there a way to achieve this workflow, or something close to it
> >> in Claws?
> >> 
> >> Thanks
> >> John
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