Search

These settings change how MsgFiler 4 searches and filters the list of mailboxes from Mail.

Smart Suggestions

  • Suggest mailboxes automatically: When enabled, MsgFiler 4 will log your filing actions and use this data to predict mailboxes in which to file your selected messages in Apple Mail. Learn more about Smart Suggestions.

  • Show suggested mailboxes on top: When enabled, suggested mailboxes from Smart Suggestions will always be visible above Favorite, Recent, and queried mailboxes. Note that if there is a single exact match based on your search query, that result will always be placed on top above any suggested mailboxes.

  • Reset Smart Suggestions: Clears all stored training data so MsgFiler can start learning your filing habits from scratch.

  • View Suggestions Log: Displays the local log of filing activity used to train Smart Suggestions.

Search Restrictions

  • Restrict search to selected accounts: When enabled, MsgFiler 4 will analyze the currently selected messages and display only those mailboxes that belong to the account(s) of the messages.

  • Prioritize accounts of selected messages: When enabled, MsgFiler 4 will show mailbox results from the accounts that belong to the selected message(s). This is useful if you have the identically named mailboxes across multiple email accounts.

  • Ignore mailbox path when matching: When enabled, MsgFiler 4 will only search on the name of the mailbox and ignore any parent folders.

  • Case-sensitive search: When enabled, MsgFiler 4 will perform a case-sensitive search for your mailboxes.

Search Field

  • Focus on search on activation: When returning to MsgFiler 4, focus will automatically return to the search field and select any pre-existing text.

  • Search field contents on activation: Control how the contents of the search field are handled when returning to MsgFiler.

    • Retain: The contents of the search field are retained when you return to MsgFiler.

    • Clear Always: The contents of the search field are always cleared when returning to MsgFiler.

    • Clear Only After Action: The contents of the search field are cleared only after performing a filing action.

Recent and Favorite Mailboxes

  • Remember recent mailboxes: When enabled, MsgFiler 4 will remember the last ten mailboxes you filed to, excluding favorite mailboxes.

  • Clear Recents: When Remember recent mailboxes is active, this button appears and you can click it to clear the list of recent mailboxes.

  • Favorite mailboxes: Click the Reorder button to reorder your favorite maiboxes.

  • Sync favorite mailboxes to iCloud: Share your favorite mailboxes across all Mac computers logged into the same iCloud account.

  • Show mailbox name only for favorites: Enable this to hide the mailbox path for favorite mailboxes.

  • Clear Favorites: Click this button to remove all of your mailboxes from the Favorites list.

Mailbox Visibility

  • Excluded mailboxes: You can specify keywords to exclude from your list of mailboxes and accounts. This is useful if you don't want to see certain mailboxes in the list of returned results. Click Manage to display a sheet where you can view and edit your list of Excluded Mailboxes.

Excuded Mailboxes

After editing the list of Excluded Mailboxes, click Save to save your changes. Any matching word will exclude both mailboxes and accounts with the indicated names from the search results in MsgFiler 4.

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