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Thunderbird Add-on: quickFilters
http://quickfilters.quickfolders.org/
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Question: Create a filter to process multiple addresses #153

Open infinitelyintrigued opened 1 year ago

infinitelyintrigued commented 1 year ago

Hi, I use quickFilters, quickFolders, and FiltaQuilla with my Thunderbird 102.7.0. I really like them all. Is there an easy way to create a filter to process multiple From addresses? I have 10 to 20 addresses I want to tag as messages arrive. I have been using FiltaQuilla's Header Regex Match to process them. However, those filters have stopped working reliably since I started using Owl for Exchange. The filters that use From are still working. Thank you.

RealRaven2000 commented 1 year ago

one way to do this is by dragging multiple emails (from various senders) to a folder while having the quickFilters assistant active. Then use the template "Group":

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This will gather all the senders from multiple emails and add them to search terms. You can also add these if the mails have already been moved to the folder, via the right-click menu and "quickFilters: Create Filter from message...":

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If a filter already exists for the folder, it will also suggest merging the search terms to it if you prefer. I wouldn't add more than 100 search terms to a single filter though, not sure whether Thunderbird is even tested with this many.

quickFilters will also avoid duplicates of the same email address and remove your own email addresses.

infinitelyintrigued commented 1 year ago

Thank you. I will try it.