I have been using Plugins for MacMail for over 8 years, MsgFiler being the most useful £10 I have ever spent. But with Sonoma most Plugins will be discontinued. If Mailbutler incorporated it into an Update then many additional subscribers would sign up. Please consider this. Simon Heller

I used to use a Mail add-on called MailHub. Judging by the activity in the chat rooms when it suddenly, and without warning or explanation, ceased to be supported, I was not the only one. A little search will show you quite a large number of people lamenting the fact that it no longer worked with new MacOS releases.

MailHub had a learning function. It operated within the normal Mail tool bar and offered suggestions on where, in a user's own mailboxes/filing system, a recently arrived email might be filed. Equally, when you were composing an email to another party, perhaps somebody in your address book, MailHub would suggest where to file it – and give you the option of filing it automatically after sending, or leaving it in Sent. It really was an amazingly powerful little app, if you happened to be one of the many people who like to file your emails in a wide range of different, person or subject related mailboxes.

It had a fairly detailed settings pane that allowed you to determine its filing rules. And, in the Mail toolbar, there was a drop-down menu which allowed you to look at alternative suggestions for a filing destination, if the one it was offering wasn't right.

Superficially, it was quite similar to the function currently being offered by Apple in the toolbar, (see top right, where it says Mailbutler):

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… but was (a) far more reliable, (Apple’s suggestions are often wrong), and (b) far more powerful in that it also filed outgoing emails automatically, once you had approved the app's suggestion. And the suggestions improved over time, as it learnt your preferences. The only major error it had, and I was in discussion with its developer over this fact on several occasions, was that it didn't really differentiate between the person you were sending the email to and others that you copied the email to. Not surprisingly, I mostly wanted the email filed in a folder relevant to the main addressee, not to a folder related to one of the copied people. For some reason, the add-on struggled to cope with this.

Many of us really lament the fact that MailHub is no longer available. MailButler would naturally tap into this audience if it offered similar functionality.

Speaking just for me, if MH offered this feature, it would speed up my workflow by about 200%.

Best wishes

Peter

Coming from Mailtags I like your product, but I am missing the "Tree View" of all my tagged Emails.

I know at the moment it can't be implemented into the Mac Mail Favorites, but you could create a view in your window where I can see all Tags with the number of tagged emails where you can open the list of tagged emails by clicking on one tag.

Or at least give an option with an "OR" selection instead of "AND" selection of tags as it is now.

I'm pleased to hear that Mailbutler is introducing tagging, especially as MailSuite have not been able to implement that functionality for Sonoma. Will the tags be in a standard format so that users can organise with Smart Folders and that they will be preserved if the e-mails are archived (I use devonthink for this)?

Bill

Originally sent to support.

Use Case -

I receive an email (in my in-box) from a specific user about a project that we're working on. I'd like to be able to click on a button that would isolate all emails from that user in the specific in-box I am currently viewing. This would be so helpful to hide all other emails except emails from this person and have them in chronological order. I could quickly scan thru the past 5-10 emails to help set context.

Classification of emails into project folders on the Mail sidebar

Projects. Defined projects contain pointers to messages potentially from different folders that relate to the project theme. Tags could identify the projects. This would not move messages to the project folder; it would be effectively an alias.

I am one of the many people who are urgently looking for an alternative to MailTags. Mailbutler could be that alternative.

However, I'm missing one function that has been very important to me so far with MailTags: the combination of e-mail rules with tags.

What do I mean? I have currently created a series of email rules that pre-sort my emails. In these rules, tags from MailTags and projects from MailTags are also assigned, along with a number of other settings such as text colors. However, it is important to assign different tags and projects directly to certain senders. It is therefore about the automatic assignment of tags/projects to incoming mails. I would go mad if I had to tag my inbox manually every day.

I would greatly appreciate it if Mailbutler could offer this function: Then it would be much easier for me to switch.

Please add the functions, MailHub had. Mailhub does no longer exist and Catalina has been the last OS supporting MailHub. I had to change my Computer and run Ventura now and the e-mail filing of AppleMail is a nightmare when you have a large folder structure. I saved at least 30 minutes per day with MailHub. There is quite a large fanbase ready to spend some money on this feature...

I use smart folders quite a bit and with my previous tagging solution I was able to base a folder on tags. Since switching to MailButler this in no longer an option and it really hampers my workflow. Please could we have integration with smart folders as my number 1 priority?