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Create Smart Mailboxes to better organize email

Come on man............

Something I can't live without in Thunderbird.

Wish this were present not just in Mac Mail (which I don't use, since I don't have a Mac) but also in the iPad's email client (since I DO have one of them)....

I can't figure out Apple. I'm assuming they are trying to get people to migrate to their computers from Windows but they surely make it difficult for people to do so. If using Outlook Express in Windows XP, need to export contacts to a CSV file [and it doesn't import too well in the Mac address book]. As for the mail, even worse. You need to install Thunderbird [or something else], export your mail from OE to Thunderbird and then import into Apple Mail.
Is Apple lazy enough not to make things a bit simple. And for what Apple Mail can import? Thunderbird, Eudora [how many Windows users use that?] and a few other lesser known formats. No Outlook either [just Entourage - unsure if the file format is the same].

How come I cannot simply select an email address and add it to an existing Smart Mailbox? If you can do that, I certainly don't know how...