Refilter an email to diagnose filter actions
Run an email through filters again and report which filter did what action. This would be indispensable for heavy filter users to diagnose why some mails are getting specific tags, or expiration period.
It would also help to test a newly added rule without affecting other mails, or waiting for it to run through all emails.
Murteza
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Murteza
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An implementation of this idea with larger use cases would be running selected emails through filters again, as if they were just received. I see how this would make the implementation of dry-run difficult or confusing for some of the users. Maybe drop dry-run to diagnose completely.
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Murteza
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This is more like 2 features in one.
1. A button in 3dots menu (near print and view headers buttons) to rerun that email through filters again.
2. Dry run mode (Advanced): display which filter would caught and apply which actions.These would allow us to test run filters without applying it to all emails, thus undoing some of the manual organizing we might have done. Dry run mode is a suggestion, but not as important.