[edit ] Apple Mail Slow Down Issues
Recently, my Apple Mail had been getting slower and slower. What this means is when I open my mail I had a bunch of new mail that would come in and it got frustrating because I would click on a new piece of mail and the body centent might not show for as much as 30 seconds.
Trying to resolve the issue I tried a few things however I finally realized what it was: it turns out I had a bunch of smart folders where some of them had many hundreds even thousands of items.
Solution: So I tried various techniques to update the smart folders show that they only had a limited amount of items in each.
Once I did that, then Apple Mail became quite responsive after that.
I am trying to improve my Smart Folders with Apple Mail
For example if I make multiple criteria like:
Any recipient contains X
Any recipient contains XX
Any recipient contains XXX
Subject contains X
Sender is a member of group XXX
etc.
Then I have to choose contains messages that match = ANY of the following.
And this can result in many hundreds (or larger) of found emails
If I was to choose: that contains messages that match = ALL
then obviously this would not work and often would find few or zero
Q: I don’t know how to add this in:
Use the above criteria and add message sent within the last seven days… That kind of thing?
Also - when creating smart searches in macOS finder - you can do this cool trick: hold down option key when you click the plus button and you could do sub searches with multiple criteria.
This would be great for Apple Mail Smart folders but I don’t know how to do it.
Q: Has anyone figured out a way to be able to use multiple complex criteria and get the kind of results you might want?