HACKER Q&A
📣 jimkleiber

Do you use email filters/rules?


I just posted on FB for the first time in a long time and was thinking about how beholden I am to the algorithm, not knowing who will see what I post or when. Then I thought that what I love about email is that I can put rules to control what I see and when and wondered if this might be something a next iteration of social media might have.

But then I wondered: how many people actually use email filters/rules?

So I ask you: do you use email filters/rules? If so, how do you use them? And would you possibly want a similar system for non-email feeds?

  👤 ggm Accepted Answer ✓
Yes. I used .maildelivery before procmail, and procmail until my work stopped supporting it and I now use 0365 rules and Google filter rules.

I would love somebody to write up seive and how to use it with the majors.

I use Google filters for what we used to call presort Inc, so I process list mails into specific folders, and identify a small handful of chums so I can always find their mail quickly.

Lack of decent support for envelope sender/recipient distinct from To/From field is a bugbear, the box.extra@ and box+extra@ method does most of what that needed but not all.

👤 leed25d
Yes, I use them. There are a few filters for deleting emails from some users and others to tag my emails based on the sender's address.
👤 learningmore
Yes. To help me find the most important things. To put things into the right place for finding later. Maybe.
👤 feymese
i'm using rules to mark emails as spam by title and/or content.

some weird peoples/companies sending spam emails like legit emails and it won't go to spam unless i use filters.

( i don't like "growth hacking" peoples )