[X4U] Tiger Mail, SmartFolders or Rules?

[Michael Gmail]

On May 1, 2005, at 12:30 AM, Eric Prentice wrote:

> In one sense, it seems like smart folders would be a better way to 
> keep things clean and speed up the processing of incoming mail. On the 
> flip side, it seems a little crazy to have all my mail sitting in one 
> folder.

My half-baked thought--I'm scheduled for delivery of Tiger tomorrow, so 
the only hands-on experience I've had have been a few minutes at the 
Apple Store--is that it would make sense to maintain a clear 
distinction between the *types* of criteria you want to use with rules 
and with smart folders. I expect I'll continue filtering communications 
with specific business associates to their own "dumb" folders, and 
maybe use smart folders to pick out messages by age, keywords, flagged 
status, whether they have attachments, or the like.

Michael


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