I'm using Gmail+IMAP if that could be important. 4.09K subscribers Subscribe 6K views 3 years ago Linux Thunderbird Email Description: Message filters (similar to Rule in Outlook) allow you to set up Thunderbird to organize your. and hence the normal rules of the SMTP protocol (not the normal rules of Unix piping). Click on the Manage message filters button (shown. String or array to be inserted at the end of the email header. Is it somehow possible to hack into the filter configuration or is there some other way of complex filtering using only ONE filter?ītw. Click on the mail box you wish to add the filter to (shown by the red arrow at the top of the image, below). find all filters that affect a specific folder. Organize your emails using Thunderbird Message Rules Open Thunderbird email client and create a new folder Go to Tool tab > Click on Message filter option. find duplicate filters or filter conditions.

extended search of filters: search conditions / actions / folder name. alphabetical sorting & grouping of selected filters. Periodically (manually) delete the messages from folder2. Create a search folder (folder2), to select only the read messages from folder1. cut, copy and paste even across mailboxes. But I can suggest this workaround: Create a first filter to store the messages in a specific folder (folder1), based only on the sender. In the new rule, change the default property entry From to Subject using the pulldown menu. Of course I could do a seperate filter for each of them, but if I wanted to change something, it gets tedious for all >20-30 filter rules. Additional tools include: merging and cloning of filters. Select the + to the right of the From rule to create a new filter rule. The purpose of all this is to delete unimportant or notification emails as soon as I read them. I tried working around with that by first marking all the messages with an unprobable combination of tags in a first filter and then use a second filter to move all the marked+tagged messages to trash if they are read, but this works very poorly, as sometimes messages aren't being marked, sometimes marked messages are not deleted. The problem is, one filter rule can only match any (= OR) or all (=AND) filterconditions. (If message contains xy or sender is yz) and status is read, move to trash Use Thunderbird’s Email Filters to Keep Your Inbox Clean Andrew Braun Are you missing important emails in a sea of newsletters, shipping updates, and cat picture forwards Your first step should be to unsubscribe from all those newsletters, but step two should be to set up some email filters to automatically sort your incoming mail. The filter mechanism of Thunderbird is nice for simple things.

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