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Title: Message rules / move messages automatically
Post by: JanBoen on June 20, 2013, 11:34:00 am

Hi,

Is it possible to set-up rules so that incoming messages are marked or can be moved to another folder?
On my mobile device I only want to read/see those messages that are really addressed to me or are of importance.
Stuff coming e.g. from Yahoo groups etc should be moved to another folder so that they don't clutter up my inbox.
The Yahoo Groups and related stuff I will then read on my laptop when and if I find some time.

Thanks,


Jan

Title: Re: Message rules / move messages automatically
Post by: Thomas on June 20, 2013, 06:36:04 pm

AquaMail does not support rules or filters on it own in this moment.

Title: Re: Message rules / move messages automatically
Post by: Mikesmom on June 22, 2013, 05:53:40 am

Thomas, do you know of an app that works with aqua mail that supports gmail label notifications?

Title: Re: Message rules / move messages automatically
Post by: Thomas on June 22, 2013, 08:36:22 am

Mike i am not aware of any, sorry.

Title: Re: Message rules / move messages automatically
Post by: Kostya Vasilyev on June 23, 2013, 03:02:42 am

AquaMail has no built-in message rules, at least for now.

It does work really well if you use server side message rules: with Gmail or Yahoo (or any other, really, as long as messages are sorted into folders, which can then be loaded into AquaMail). A nice thing about this is that the rules only need to be configured once even if you have multiple devices.

Title: Re: Message rules / move messages automatically
Post by: sad on July 22, 2015, 09:20:33 am

any news about filters and rules for messages ?

Title: Re: Message rules / move messages automatically
Post by: sad on July 22, 2015, 09:31:19 am

I disagree. Any desktop client has rules and filters. Many of us are using more devices for mail indeed, but also if you don't know what are doing, better don't use it. It's simple as that. So filter and rules should be implemented in any client in despite of operating system.

And it seems to me it should be more important to have filters and rules on mobile devices if you are not in the office all day.

P.S. it's not about taste, it's about utility !

Title: Re: Message rules / move messages automatically
Post by: sad on July 22, 2015, 09:35:39 am

I already read. And I already set that up. I need it to be mobile with ... my mobile. I want to apply rules on my smartphone also, if it is possible. And I'm not the only one. Get it? Thanks.

Title: Re: Message rules / move messages automatically
Post by: sad on July 22, 2015, 09:40:02 am

Everything is fine, no problem. Sorry if I answered like this to you, but all I'm thinking now is about filters and rules... Like I said... I need it to be mobile....
Thanks for chatting though.

Title: Re: Message rules / move messages automatically
Post by: crashdamage on July 22, 2015, 09:28:35 pm

Quote from: sad on July 22, 2015, 09:35:39 am

I already read. And I already set that up. I need it to be mobile with ... my mobile. I want to apply rules on my smartphone also, if it is possible. And I'm not the only one. Get it? Thanks.

Paris Geek is exactly right about filters, rules, sorting - all this should be done on the server.  That's precisely what makes filters, rules and sorting mobile.  And the ability to do it on the server is what makes IMAP so good for mobile use.  Well, and push notifications. 

Anyway, that's why so few mobile email clients include filters and such.  In fact, only one I can think of does.

Basically, having filters built-in a mobile email client serves no useful purpose except for handling POP3 email, because it cannot do it on the server.

Android since v1.0.  Linux user since 2001.

Title: Re: Message rules / move messages automatically
Post by: mikeone on July 22, 2015, 11:19:35 pm

Quote from: sad on July 22, 2015, 09:20:33 am

any news about filters and rules for messages ?

This is the very latest news from AquaMail's developer:
http://www.aqua-mail.com/forum/index.php?topic=1323.msg3966#msg3966

Title: Re: Message rules / move messages automatically
Post by: Kostya Vasilyev on July 23, 2015, 12:16:58 am

And I don't have any more recent news, sorry.

Personally, I use server side message rules and find them great. Some have been there, hard at work, for years.

Title: Re: Message rules / move messages automatically
Post by: clickityclack on February 27, 2016, 03:11:12 am

I have set server side rules with my desktop outlook, but my app does not seem to recognize these and I get everything in my inbox, which is super annoying. Any ideas on why the app isn't recognizing these rules?

Title: Re: Message rules / move messages automatically
Post by: StR on February 27, 2016, 05:39:49 am

Quote from: clickityclack on February 27, 2016, 03:11:12 am

I have set server side rules with my desktop outlook, but my app does not seem to recognize these and I get everything in my inbox, which is super annoying. Any ideas on why the app isn't recognizing these rules?

Desktop outlook rules are not server side! Those are for your desktop client only.

If the folders to which messages get saved are not synced with the server, - the app will not know about them.
That could happen in two cases: either the type of your connection doesn't provide syncing
folders back to the server, such as POP3, or you chose to save to the folders that are local to your desktop.

Let us know
(1) What type of connection is configured in your outlook configured (IMAP, POP3, ActiveSync, ...),
and if it is not POP3,
(2) Do you have the folders in Outlook configured to be synced with the server?