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No Rules, No Filters for IMAP Gmail?
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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I use Gmail/IMAP via Mail.app and I love it, but my one complaint is that my Mail.app rules do not appear to work and there are apparently no filters on Gmail itself that include the logic I want. Am I stuck?
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Whatcha trying to do? My son uses Gmail's filters to reroute all his Facebook notifications to some folder other than Inbox...really handy with mobile mail.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Originally Posted by ghporter
Whatcha trying to do? My son uses Gmail's filters to reroute all his Facebook notifications to some folder other than Inbox...really handy with mobile mail.
I want to delete all my old (more than 24 hours) Facebook notifications and notifications from other fora on the Internet so I don't have to manually delete them (I typically get like 20 a day).
Funny it's basically the same reason as your son. LOL
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Sounds like the old "make a rule to send these notifications to a new folder" trick with a twist of "delete everything in the folder when you feel like it."
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Have you tried another client? What is an example of a rule that is not working?
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Originally Posted by ghporter
Sounds like the old "make a rule to send these notifications to a new folder" trick with a twist of "delete everything in the folder when you feel like it."
Not entirely satisfying, but okay. Within the Gmail interface, there are no subfolders of the Inbox, just "Labels," which is kind of a drag because I prefer the a simple directory/folder structure. Call me old-fashioned.
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Originally Posted by besson3c
Have you tried another client? What is an example of a rule that is not working?
This:
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Clinically Insane
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selowich: I assume you have a trash mailbox setup?
Testing this in another client would be a good idea. I suggest Postbox Express, which I think is better than OS X Mail anyway...
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Originally Posted by besson3c
selowich: I assume you have a trash mailbox setup?
Testing this in another client would be a good idea. I suggest Postbox Express, which I think is better than OS X Mail anyway...
Isn't Postbox a pay-software distro of Thunderbird? I d/led it and it sure looks that way....
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Originally Posted by selowitch
Isn't Postbox a pay-software distro of Thunderbird? I d/led it and it sure looks that way....
Postbox Express is free, regular Postbox you have to pay for. Postbox is based on Thunderbird, but Postbox 2 (which is now in beta and free to download) has undergone many UI changes and added features so that it doesn't really resemble Thunderbird anymore.
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Originally Posted by besson3c
Postbox Express is free, regular Postbox you have to pay for. Postbox is based on Thunderbird, but Postbox 2 (which is now in beta and free to download) has undergone many UI changes and added features so that it doesn't really resemble Thunderbird anymore.
Well, it seemed from PE Express that the Rules structure is identical to Thunderbird's, so I may as well just try Thunderbird ... right?
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Sure... It doesn't really matter, the point of this just is just to see if the problem you are having is client specific.
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally Posted by selowitch
Not entirely satisfying, but okay. Within the Gmail interface, there are no subfolders of the Inbox, just "Labels," which is kind of a drag because I prefer the a simple directory/folder structure. Call me old-fashioned.
The "label" walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, so it may as well be a duck-or a different folder. You access it the same way as a folder...and the mechanism that runs it is basically the same as how "mailbox folders" are run, through "labeling" each message with its appropriate "folder."
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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