Chapter 4
Getting More Out of Mail
IN THIS CHAPTER
Searching for messages
Creating mailboxes to store related messages
Using smart mailboxes and rules to ease organization
Cleaning up junk email
Deleting and archiving messages
People used to complain about serious problems such as pollution, overpopulation, and poverty. Now all anybody talks about is how many emails they have in their inbox. That’s unsurprising, I suppose, because almost everybody gets way too much email.
There’s not much that Mail can do to reduce the avalanche of email you receive in a day, but Mail does offer quite a few tools that can help you not get buried under all those messages. For example, Mail has a search feature that enables you to locate specific text stored in a message. You can also get Mail to remind you to deal with a particular message. When you find the messages you want, you may want to group them into their own mailbox. Even better, you can set up smart mailboxes, where Mail automatically puts ...
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