Filter Condition Based on Time
Ability to make the filter condition based on time the email has existed. I want to automatically move emails to my junk after they've been in my inbox for more than 1 year.
avocado
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Murteza
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Filters run for each email once, as soon as it arrives. This is why Sieve language doesn't have support for "filtering only the emails in Foo folder, or emails with Bar tag". That being said, Sieve language allows filtering emails according to "Date" header/metadata. This could be useful in rare cases when someone forwards an old email to you. If you write a Sieve filter to apply to your old emails, you not only need to run it manually, but also end up running against all emails and not only those still in inbox. Sieve is the universal language we use for email sieving, and it is incapable of targeting a rule to emails that already exist in specific folders or tags. Deviating from Sieve standard for such a tiny use case would be big damage to Proton's reputation among heavy filter users.
"Junk" is another word for Spam folder. If you move emails older than 1 year in inbox folder into Junk folder, Proton will interpret that as you no longer want any new emails from those who sent you email a year ago.
That may not exactly what you are intending to do. Even if it is your intention, this can be misinterpreted by other users who thought it was a convenient inbox clean up button, but unintentionally break the behaviour of their mailbox by marking the email addresses from their employers, government, insurance etc as Spam.
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Aubrey Thompson
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I would also love the ability to create a filter that limits the dates of which emails I want to be filtered into those categories. For example, my new filter is a "Friends" folder with various criteria, and then I choose a timeline option where I only filter emails "from today forward." Or maybe I want to only find emails from 1month ago forward to be filtered into that folder.
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3Days
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Created an account to +1 request to this feature. I am a new Proton Mail Plus user that just came from Gmail a couple of days ago. In Gmail, I was able to write code that deletes filtered emails after # days, that would run daily in my Gmail.
I'd love to have something similar in Proton.
Please let us have a filter based on time in Proton Mail. I'd really like to fully move over here to Proton from Gmail.