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Use Mail Rules to Set User-Created Categories

John Avery shared this idea 58 days ago
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It would be extraordinarily useful to be able to set user-created categories using a rule. This would allow for emails to be tagged with multiple categories to improve searching and filtering.

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Yes, I cannot emphasize how useful this feature would be. I love the new categories/tags implementation, but until rules can be set to apply these as email arrives, the true power of their utility is significantly diminished, as I currently have to manually apply categories/tags to email.

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Technically possible right now using a Sieve editor, but there should definitely be UI support for this.

If you point a Sieve client at imap.mailbox.org, you can see your current rules. if you create a rule for the emails you want in the UI, you can then edit it to make the action

addflag "$ct_user_0001_3"
That will set the first user-created category that you made. I've no idea what the "_3" on the end does, but it doesn't seem to change when you create new categories, while the "0001" does increment.

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Could you point me towards a Sieve editor?

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I use PIM Sieve Editor (KDE project, so usually has packages for Linux, or you can get a Windows build from https://cdn.kde.org/ci-builds/pim/pim-sieve-editor/), but there are lots: http://sieve.info/clients.

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+1 - I looked everywhere for this feature as i thought this would be obvious, apparently not.

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Hello.

Thanks for your suggestion! We really appreciate you taking the time to share this idea with us. We agree that it’s a valuable improvement.

We’ve gone ahead and created a feature request and passed it on to our team for consideration. While we can’t provide any timeline or guarantee that it will be implemented, it’s now on their radar.

Thanks again for helping us improve!


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