RealRaven2000
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3 years ago Emails that go into a unified inbox need filter rules that feed into the "local folders" inbox.
Can you unpack that for me? The "unified inbox" is merely a view on the folder tree, it is not a physical location. What you are saying is you need a single filter that applies to all "real" inboxes.
These can be created, quite easily. But not with "create a rule from message".
Can you explain how you do this currently? Please add some screenshots if you can - github accepts images from the clipboard. Once you have created the filter, does it show up in each inbox as a separate filter? If not, I cannot imagine how and where this being stored - the current model of Tb stores all filters in msgFilterRules.dat files which are in individual accounts. It would be very interesting to see how this is stored. How do you edit the filter later? Do you have to click on the global inbox, then click message filters and then it appears? what is shown in the account dropdown shows in this case.
That only creates rules that direct messages into the set of rules ( or the place where they are kept) for that specific email's recipient address.
The main reason being that I don't know of a URI (and address) for the "global inbox". And there is "global inbox" on the server dropdown in the rules window, either. therefore quickFilters takes great pains to determine the original account - you can also create a filter after moving mails manually in the target folder via right-click / "quickFilters: create filter from message". At this point, is has no idea whether you were looking at a "unified inbox" or the individual inbox when you saw the mail at first.
as you see there is no option "unified inbox" or "all inboxes" - it is simply not part of the Thunderbird architecture. But if you have a manual way of creating such a "global filter" I would sure want to know how.
What am I missing?
terrybernsteingithub
Emails that go into a unified inbox need filter rules that feed into the "local folders" inbox. These can be created, quite easily. But not with "create a rule from message". That only creates rules that direct messages into the set of rules ( or the place where they are kept) for that specific email's recipient address.