[X-Newbies] Re: X-Newbies Digest, Vol 16, Issue 24

[david_elmo]

> From: William Lane <wilann at telusplanet.net>
> Subject: Re: [X-Newbies] Re: smart folder
>
> 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.

Thanks, a nice answer, clear and what you do with them, William,  is  
smart.  They should have put in a reference or link to an explanation  
of the concept in the help file of Mail, the mark of a bad help file  
making team is they assume too much.

David Elmo