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Use Mail Rules to Set User-Created Categories

John Avery shared this idea 37 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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