
Here's how you set up your own Smart Mailboxes. Any email from those addresses heads to that mailbox, letting you successfully keep track of any Amazon order you place from beginning to end. So you can set one up that, for instance, catches any message from a set of four specific email addresses. You set a series of parameters, and email that comes in that fits those parameters is automatically sorted into your Smart Mailbox. If you've ever created a Smart Playlist in iTunes, Smart Mailboxes follow a similar principle.

How to create a Smart Mailbox in Mail for Mac 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.Ĭlick on the folder to which you want to send the message or messages.

Your new folder will be located under the name of the email account into which you placed it in the Sidebar. Select On My Mac if you only want this mailbox on your Mac You can choose from any of your existing email accounts, such as iCloud or Gmail.

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. 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.
