Google| Subject | Re: The Most Advanced OS of the World... |
| From | Alan Baker |
| Date | 05/04/2013 06:06 (05/03/2013 21:06) |
| Message-ID | <alangbaker-BF7EA4.21060303052013@news.shawcable.net> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.advocacy |
| Follows | Laszlo Lebrun |
| Followups | Laszlo Lebrun (2h & 21m) > Alan Baker |
In article <km0u3p$m20$1@tota-refugium.de>, Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@laszlomail.com>wrote:
Laszlo LebrunSure. Search/filter... ...whatever.
On 03.05.2013 18:39, Alan Baker wrote:Alan BakerLaszlo Lebrun
Imagine that: the application gains new and better features with the passage of time. And using the Search box is quite intuitive to those who use Macs, Laszlo.
Using "search", when I just want to "hide already read mails"? You call that intuitive?
And it matters whether you actually HIDE the read messages rather than have them sort in the list AFTER the unread ones?Alan BakerSorting is not the focus, we are on hiding already read messages.
Since it is in virtually every application that can display multiple items, be they emails, files, pages, one quickly learns that the advanced searching in Mac OS X is something you should at least try.Laszlo Lebrun
The sort on status does not sort unread, as of Version 4.2.
Really? Give some examples.Alan BakerLaszlo Lebrun
Again: software is improved with successive versions. This is unsurprising.
Experience tell sometimes the opposite, especially with Apple software. but also Microsoft and Canonical.
There isn't a big enough functional difference to matter.Laszlo LebrunOn pretty much every other decent Mail software, you just select -as expected- "unread" in the view menu and it will filter the read messages right out of the original folders. Finito!Alan Baker
And in Mac Mail 5.3 (my version) it's also on the menu:
View:Sort By:Unread
Which is almost precisely how Thunderbird 17.0.5 does it, BTW. (View:Sort by:Read)
Sorting is not the focus, we are on hiding already read messages.
What Sandman or the OP called them is irrelevant to the fact that the actual SOFTWARE only calls them "smart mailboxes".Laszlo LebrunFinally & to add to a totally perfect confusion: from the menu, the "smart folders" are called "smart mailboxes"?Alan Baker
In what way is that confusion? Where are they called anything else?
Sandman and the OP called them exclusively smart folders, so logically one would in the help search for "smart folders", which returns nothing since Apple call them "smart mailboxes".
Which -with permission- isn't really an appropriate designation for an own alternate representation of existing data from an external mailbox. I suppose some lawyer interacted here and Apple were not ready to pay license fees?What are you talking about? It's a perfect suitable name. They are smart mailboxes in the sense that their contents don't need to be manually controlled, but rather are automatically generated by one or more filtering criteria.
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