Mac OS X Mavericks: Create a smart mailbox
On OS X Mavericks you can create an intelligent mailbox. With this function in Apple's mailbox, your emails are sorted according to the criteria you specified.
Create an intelligent mailbox under Mavericks
If you want to keep your email account tidier, intelligent mailboxes are the ideal solution. Proceed as follows to set up:
- Start "Mail" in your Dock and press "Mailbox"> "New intelligent mailbox ..." in the top system bar.
- In the next window (see picture) you can now define the criteria according to which emails should be sorted in your intelligent mailbox.
- You can determine a main criterion by clicking on the first dropdown menu. The sender, subject or account are available here.
- In the next point choose another filter like "contains", "does not contain" or "starts with".
- In the last field you can enter keywords according to which your emails should be sorted. After you have defined the criteria, you only have to confirm with "OK".
In the next practical tip you will read how to save your emails as a PDF under OS X Mavericks.