Add ability to run newly created filters against existing mail
Can you please make it so we can run newly created filters against existing mail? Ideally based off the same criteria we can search on, applied retroactively.
When creating a filter, you have a checkbox "Apply filter to existing emails".
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Anonymous commented
YES
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Anonymous commented
Essential feature, I enjoyed this feature in other apps since 1999.
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Anonymous commented
this is a must have for everyone who recently migrated all their email to protonmail
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Anonymous commented
How have we been waiting for this for 5 years
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Anonymous commented
+1
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Rutger commented
+1
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Marc commented
5 years on from OP and still this feature isn't available...
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Anonymous commented
This is an essential feature. I have migrated 10k+ mails from gmail and want to be able to reorganize them automatically through filters.
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soyfrien commented
+1
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soyfrien commented
+1
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soyfrien commented
Yes, it would be great if this were possible. I didn't start using filters and labels until I had about 2000 emails to organize.
Using them together is incredibly powerful and useful, but I wish I could run the filters retroactively to label the messages I received before creating the filters and labels.
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Anonymous commented
It would be great if one could apply [new] filters retroactively to existing mailbox or folder.
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AJ commented
really need this feature. I have 40k messages in my mailbox that i need to sort
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Anonymous commented
I am creating a new issue here because the original existing issue which is > 4 years old has not been addressed.
The original issue:
> I know Custom Filters are brand new and still in development - however I think they were a big "need this to migrate" feature for a lot of us. I've made the leap now that they're present and gone to a premium account. However, I have a couple thousand emails that I would really like to pass through the newly created filters to clean them up uniformly (and validate the filters). Can you please make it so we can run newly created filters against existing mail? Ideally based off the same criteria we can search on.
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Here are the other requests, which have a combined vote of > 350:
- https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/suggestions/42001342-apply-filter-rule-to-inbox-moves-existing-emails
- https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/suggestions/35849962-apply-existing-filters-on-mailbox
- https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/suggestions/41813551-retrospective-filters
- https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-protonmail/suggestions/38291968-add-ability-to-run-new-filters-against-existing-ma
- https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/suggestions/16882708-apply-filter-rules-to-all-current-emails
- https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/284483-feedback/suggestions/15996352-add-ability-to-run-newly-created-filters-against-ePlease reconsider the priority of this issue, because there are hundreds of votes for this one basic feature.
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Anonymous commented
Ability to set up a new filter, and then run it on all existing messages. This would help enormously to tidy up inboxes, move mail to new folders, labels etc.
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anon commented
Hi this is essential. I am migrating emails over from my old gmail and yahoo accounts and this is essential to sorting those old emails.
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Ethan Young commented
Each custom filter created should have an option to apply the filter to emails already received, read or unread (or both).
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Kevin commented
I also very much miss this feature.
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Anonymous commented
Umm, yes this is crazy that this feature does not exist...
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İsmail commented
It is very unusual not having this feature