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If you're anything like me, you get a veritable flood of emails every day from countless different senders: your significant other, your boss, newsletters, marketing spam, you name it. How do you sift through it all? Well, if you use a Mac, you can take advantage of Mail's built-in organization tools to help you sort through your email, from creating folders to creating a Smart Mailbox.
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Here's how you can organize all of your emails using Mail's tools.
How to create a folder in Mail for Mac
- Open Mail from your Dock or Applications Folder.
- Click Mailbox in the Menu bar.
- Click New Mailbox.
- Click the drop-down next to location to choose where to set up your new mailbox folder.
- Click on an email account to choose where your mailbox will go. You can choose from any of your existing email accounts, such as iCloud or Gmail. Select On My Mac if you only want this mailbox on your Mac
- Name your mailbox.
- Click OK.
Your new folder will be located under the name of the email account into which you placed it in the Sidebar.
How to sort mail into folders in Mail for Mac
There are two methods Mail gives you for sorting email into folders manually.
- In Mail, click-and-hold on the email you want to sort.
- Drag the email to the folder on the sidebar.
Alternatively, Mail for macOS Mojave gives you a big ol' button to push so you don't have to click and drag.
- In Mail, click on the email that you want to sort. Optionally, hold down the Command Key on your Mac's keyboard, then click multiple messages to sort more than one email into a folder at once.
- Click the Move to... button.
- Click on the folder to which you want to send the message or messages.
How to create a Smart Mailbox in Mail for Mac
If you've ever created a Smart Playlist in iTunes, Smart Mailboxes follow a similar principle. You set a series of parameters, and email that comes in that fits those parameters is automatically sorted into your Smart Mailbox.
So you can set one up that, for instance, catches any message from a set of four specific Amazon.com email addresses. Any email from those addresses heads to that mailbox, letting you successfully keep track of any Amazon order you place from beginning to end.
Here's how you set up your own Smart Mailboxes.
- In Mail, click Mailboxes in the Menu bar.
- Click New Smart Mailbox.
- Name your Smart Mailbox.
- Click the drop-down to choose if messages will need to follow all of your chosen parameters to end up in the Smart Mailbox, or if they can follow any of the parameters.
- Click the left-most drop-down menu to select your first parameter. This could be who an email is from, who date received, whether or not it's flagged, and more.
- Click the central drop-down to select your conditional parameter. This could be 'contains,' 'does not contain,' 'begins with,' 'ends with,' or 'is equal to.'
- Enter the full or partial email address that the Smart Mailbox is supposed to address. E.g. if you want a mailbox that catches any email from Amazon, enter '@amazon.com' into this field.
- Click the + button to add any additional parameters in the same manner as the previous steps.
- Click OK.
Your Smart Mailbox has now been created. Unlike standard mailboxes, with a Smart Mailbox, you don't select a particular account with which to associate these emails. They'll catch everything that comes into Mail that fits your parameters, no matter which of your accounts an email is bound for.
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Mail User Guide
Mail can import email messages that have been exported in mbox format from other email apps, and import mailboxes exported from Mail on a Mac. You can export mailboxes in mbox format.
Import mailboxes
- In the Mail app on your Mac, choose File > Import Mailboxes.
- Select a source in the list, read the information that appears below the list, then click Continue.
- If you’re importing a mailbox exported from Mail or a folder in the ~/Library/Mail/V7 folder on another Mac, select Apple Mail. To get to the Mail folder on a Mac, click the desktop to make sure you’re in the Finder, press and hold the Option key, choose Go > Library, then click the Mail folder.
- If you’re importing messages from a Windows or UNIX computer, select “Files in mbox format,” then locate the folder containing the files.
- Reorganize the imported messages, if you like.The messages are in a new mailbox called Import in the Mail sidebar. You can drag folders and messages from the Import mailbox to new or existing mailboxes, then delete the Import mailbox.
Export mailboxes
- In the Mail app on your Mac, select one or more mailboxes, then choose Mailbox > Export Mailbox.
- Choose a folder or create a new folder, then click Choose.Mail exports the mailboxes as .mbox packages. If you previously exported a mailbox, Mail doesn’t overwrite the existing .mbox file; it creates a new .mbox file, such as My Mailbox 3.mbox.
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