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| Author/Date | email filter "permanently delete" |
| Tom 14/12/2015 8:08am | I would the the multi-account / paid version.
I really need an email filter that will permanently delete messages (i.e. spam) not mark them as spam, not move them to a folder, delete them completely. putting them in the trash where I have to review the whole blinking folder before saying "empty" does not float my boat. example the word "viagra" in the From or Subject field - I don't want to even see all twenty dozen every day anymore. MS Outlook had pretty decent filter control - if (Field) contains (text) then (Move / Forward / Delete / Permanently Delete) - I'm trying to move away from depending on Microsoft..... |
| fret 21/12/2015 9:32am | So really all I need to do is add a "permanently delete" option to the filter actions. Because currently the delete just moves the email to the trash. It seems like a reasonable thing to add. |
| Tom 22/12/2015 5:00am | MS Outlook is the only one I know of that will "permanently delete" a message.
the latest dozens a day batch is pfishing/malware from WhatsApp. I can't believe how many messages & voicemails I have missed on accounts and social sites I don't even have.... there are some "subjects/words" or "froms" that for some rather large number people can/should go directly to permanently deleted. not only the "cold spammers" but businesses who refuse to take you off their spam list. what would be a really neat refinement is a check block "apply this filter/criteria to all accounts" apply the permanently delete (hopefully) before any internal spam processing - some email clients brag on and on about their wonderful spam filters - so then the user has to establish a user defined delete filter set for "before spam classification" and "after spam classification" thanks for the reply! |
| Tom 26/01/2016 7:12am | any progress on implementing a permanent delete filter option?
I downloaded the beta single account version to check - actually I'm unable to decipher how any of the filters work. everything I click just produces another AND/OR/New/whatever blocklette |
| fret 26/01/2016 8:55am | any progress on implementing a permanent delete filter option? No, not yet. I've been working on higher priority stuff. Crashes and stuff that doesn't work at all. There is a version history here where the change will show up when it's done. I downloaded the beta single account version to check - actually I'm unable to decipher how any of the filters work. everything I click just produces another AND/OR/New/whatever blocklette The AND/OR nodes evaluate all nodes under them in the tree. AND would need them all the be TRUE and OR needs just one of them to be TRUE. The grey nodes are conditions, where some field is compared to a value. If you just want to check for one thing, then you need one grey condition block. It doesn't matter if you have the top most block as an AND or OR node. So to start from scratch with a new filter: - On the root element create an OR node. - On the "New" element click a new condition. - On the grey condition node you just created, select a field by clicking the left most down arrow to open the list of available fields. e.g. "Subject". - Select an operator from the next arrow. "Contains" is often what you want. - Then type in a string to search for in the right most edit field. So if you wanted to filter on "[MailingList]" in the subject you'd put that string in the value field. Then the conditions would be done, and you could move on to the actions to execute on matching email. |
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