Sven-S. Porst has updated his Mailboxer utility, which quickly creates smart mailboxes in Mail.app to match all the emails to and from contacts in your Address Book.

It now comes with options to create smart mailboxes for a particular Address Book Group or for all your contacts, French and German localisations and the ability to enter a customised name for the top-level smart mailbox created in the process.

So, now when I fire it up, I get a dialog that lets me select the Group and name of the smart mailbox:

Because I usually need to find all the emails from only a few of my contacts, I selected my “Favourites” Address Book Group.

Now, I have “persistent” searches for my boss, work colleagues, wife and buddies just a click away.

I know mutt users who have a gazillion physical mail folders, one for each contact, and who file emails religiously (and laboriously, I imagine) away into the appropriate folders.

With Mailboxer they can kiss their folders good-bye, dump everything into one big archive and let the smart mailboxes sort them out.

The app’s Preferences provide further options for sorting the contents of the smart mailboxes:

Mailboxer now also joins the tribe of apps with an auto-update feature.

Of course, if you tire of being so organised, you can just delete the top-level smart mailboxes and you’re back to normal.

It is donation-ware and available from the developer’s web site . mail.app, apple mail, address book, productivity, tips, smart mailboxes, contacts

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Tags: Address Book, Apple Mail, Apple Mail Tips, contacts, mail.app, Productivity, smart mailboxes

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