[X-Newbies] Re: smart folder

[William Lane]

On 30-Dec-05, at 6:35 PM, david_elmo wrote:

> On Tiger. I go to Mail, Mail Help and type "smart folder" to find  
> out what this concept is. There are references on how to create  
> one, how to all sorts of things but no explanation of what it is.  
> How can help file makers overlook the simplest of questions?


Perhaps they assume (incorrectly) that everyone knows what the whole  
'smart' system is about in Tiger.  Sort of like 'do we have to tell  
you what a window is?'.  Having said that, smart folders are simply  
alias repositories. That is, the 'real' email message is somewhere  
else entirely, in the InBox, sorted to a mailbox of your choice or  
whatever, but, the Smart Folder/Mailbox has it's criteria set to say  
'show me all mail that meets these criteria', and it does.  I have  
only one Smart Mailbox, the rule for it is 'show any message that is  
unread'.  VERY handy!  I have TONS of mailboxes that my mail is  
sorted into. Rather than having to go to each individual one to read  
my mail, I simply click on the Smart Mailbox that I have named  
'Unread'.  Presto! There's all my unread mail.  Once I've read it and  
selected another mailbox when I go back to Unread, only those that I  
have not read are displayed. 
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