User Controlled Email Filtering
I would like to be able to set up email filters such as those available on GMail and other mail services. I receive many spam emails that are not marked as spam and my inbox is constantly filled with junk mail from a few senders. It would be useful to be able to send emails to trash based on sender or specific keywords.
Full Email Filtering has been released in Version 3.4. You can learn more here: https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-v3-4-release-notes/.
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Anonymous commented
Filters should be the #1 priority because it is now the most important missing feature. Not having auto-filter is what makes your inbox difficult to manage.
We will migrate many clients from Google Apps to Protonmail as soon as it supports Filtering to auto-Archive and Label matches on a search string.
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Rob commented
I 100rd it on the filtering and labeling, now that we are already paying for at least some of the features why not allow a simple script to enable filtering. ie: if subject = "var" then Label-1 else Inbox"
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Naos commented
A system which you can tag a mail with a label automatically.
If a mail comes from mail XXX to automatically get the label Y.
Or if the mail is received to the alias XXX automatically get the label Z. -
Léo commented
Rules which can apply label or label+archive on incoming mails is really the feature I miss in protonmail to use it everyday (+custom domain, but this coming soon!)
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Bill Marvin commented
I agree with the above idea
Implementation note of regex search feature:
A radio button selection of search type (2 or possibly 3 types) on each of the fields in your Advanced Search:
Recipient email addresses
Sender email addresses
Subjects
Date message was sent/received
AttachmentsType 1: Text Search (your existing or enhanced search)
Type 2: Regex Expression(Note: These 2 are how “grepwin” allows you to search your hard drive files for the text within files and/or restrict the search to the file names specified either by regex or text search expressions. I have found regex expressions very valuable just to find files that match a regex expression when the “text within file” field is left blank.)
I am sure that there are a number of libraries for various web script languages for processing regex expressions. There are also slight differences and enhancements to certain programming language libraries (Java syntax being one of the most used), but the basic syntax (as opposed to the advanced syntax) is pretty much the same across the languages. I have used regex libraries in “MS .Net” languages as well as older languages such as VB6 and VBA.
A stretch for a 3rd search type might be similar to "Advanced Google Search" (like the original presenter of this idea showed by example: (i.e. "has: attachment"), but there might not be a library for that, and if you used a Google web service, you would expose the fields to an off-site engine. This would probably compromise the security/privacy of your email service.
The main thing is being able to search using Regular Expressions. That would be awesome!!
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Uli Freeman commented
One of the (three) features I'm waiting for in Protonmail to be able to leave Gmail for good. I'd even pay a monthly fee for a secure mailaccount having:
1. mailing lists
2. automatic filters
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lish commented
Please hurry! I have a friend I need to delete or he'll keep buggin me. No big deal, just... soon, k? xx
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logart commented
I want the auto-apply labels feature but i also want to auto-archive those mails into their respected "label folder" so my inbox stays always clear.
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Jori commented
I would like to have email categorized by tag.
Now if I tag an email (then I send somebody something from this email) then the reply I receive will NOT have the tag I initially gave it.This is confusing in tracking conversations in email.
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Anonymous commented
I'd love the ability to do simple regex searches like: ud(ac|em) for udacity and/or udemy content for example.
The ability to have saved searches, like the above basic regex, would be awesome!
How about "has: attachment" or "from: hottie" type searches?!
ps - thanks for all your hard work team! I (and many others) do appreciate it!
Hopeful Regards,
mr.graham
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Andreas Kuzma commented
Idea against Spam: First contact handshake (Anti-Spam)
https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/suggestions/9608124-first-contact-handshake-anti-spamI would like to have the option to get only mails from the whitelist / address book. All other mails would be auto-answered with a costumizeable text and the proposal to reply to this answer if the person is human. This reply (maybe with a captcha-like answer) would appear in my ProtonMail account and I could "unlock" this person (add to my whitelist), block (add to my blacklist) or ignore.
(I think fewest of all spam servers would reply correctly.)
What do you think?
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Andreas Kuzma commented
It would be nice, if we could get a blacklist and a whitelist. Whitelist could be the address book, but I want a blacklist for known addresses, which I would send to spam for example.
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JJ commented
I would definitely leave Gmail for good if ProtonMail has this feature.
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Anonymous commented
The ability to automatically tag emails from certain senders is vital. Having this feature would really help me leave gmail.
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Tiffani commented
It would be helpful to have a filter that allowed you to input key words (Viagra, ... ) to identify spam emails and automatically send them directly to the trash.
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pascal commented
I only use ProtonMail for select clients and do not give out my address, but I have seen people complain about spam. Why reinvent the wheel? I use SpamSieve in Apple Mail...it works great. If you could integrate it into your product, you could then focus on the other new features.
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Anonymous commented
I suspect to determine if the email is spam, they need to read your emails. May not be possible with encrypted email technology
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flipefr commented
Create an API for IFTTT rules (if this then that) (and also Zapier and any other) it will give a lot of fame to protonmail and at the same time provide it with an infinite number of automatizations and connections with others services like Github, Twitter or Facebook (I know that protonmail is focus in security and Facebook is not precisely the example to follow, but how every user manage his/her information should be user's responsability)
Some triggers could be:
-receive any email in inbox
-receive any email from an specific address
-new email resulted from a search
-new email with an attachmentSome actions:
-send an email to an especific address or addresses
-mark an email with a label -
flipefr commented
A feature that I really miss in gmail, gmx and in any other kind of email service and none of them have is filtering for sent email, as well as there are filters for inbox mail should be filters for emails that are send.
For instance, if I send an email to my mother automatically send a copy to my brother. If I send an email to my boss mark it with a star and so on...
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JohnnyB commented
Hello,
Thanks for best effort in 2.0. We need email filters. Without filters tags are useless !
thank you