On Aug 24, 2023, at 11:49 AM, Bob Gerard via <
rowerbob@...> wrote:
Since we are on the subject of Mail Rules, would anyone care to comment on the advice - which I have seen offered several times - that your best bet for constructing rules in Apple¡¯s Mail.app is to log into Mail at??and create the rules there instead of using the Mail > Settings > Rules???
I have rules in both places - remote like on iCloud or GMail, and local on my Macs. Many of the ones that are local on my Macs go back to when I was still using POP to deal with mail, and for some of my accounts (I have 33 eMail accounts between various identities of me at various providers, and quite a few for several non-profit societies I¡¯m involved in) they are still on POP accounts and I only access some of them from one computer
The advantage of rules on the server is that they process before you¡¯ve downloaded the mail, and so their effect is shown no matter what device you read your mail from - as long as you¡¯re dealing with all your mail as IMAP.
Roger
