ICloud – the ‘has list-id containing’ iCloud Mail rule

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What is the “has list-id containing” drop down option mean, how do I use it, and what does it do?

a unique identifier for a mailing list regardless of the particular host that serves as the list processor at any given time.

You can use this to perform an action for a specific mass email, such as a company's newsletter.

If you used the email address, that might change. list-id won't change.

You can find the list-id in the email header.

Yes.

Make the last two rules in your Mail rules list the following:

If Sender is not in my Address Book,
Stop evaluating rules

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If Sender is in my Address Book,
Move message to mailbox ___

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For these cases I just use

from domain.com

with

move to folder

as the action. You don't have to delete it from the Inbox afterwards, the move takes care of that.