Questions tagged [mail-rules]
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How can I use wildcards within Apple Mail rules?
I have a couple dozen rules within Apple Mail and some have hundreds of lines. The latter are rules mostly to divert spam. I own several domain names and get endless spam to made-up or altered ...
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Can't forward emails using rules in Mail.app
None of my Mail.app rules seem to be working to forward any emails even though they are working normally for other things: moving into folders, marking as read, etc. I'm using macOS Big Sur Version 11....
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How do I get macOS Mail not to show remote content in Gmail/Exchange’s spam folder?
For some reason, macOS Mail on Monterey will display remote content for messages in the Spam folder of both my Gmail and Exchange accounts. This is of course unfortunate because the spammer then knows ...
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Apple Mail: Adding two or more standard actions
I am happily using Apple Mail and have ordered my mail chaos into a great structured tree of certain archive directories. I use apple Mail rules to organize a lot of the incoming traffic to be ...
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Export MacOS Mail rules to Office 365 server
My company is moving our mail from an old IMAP server to an Office 365 server. I currently have dozens of mail rules for automatically filing messages into folders. I'm told that Office 365 can ...
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Manual edit of SyncedRules.plist not sticking
I have a number of Mail.app rules whose action is to move the message to mailbox A. I just created a new mailbox B that I want them to move to instead.
Doing this by hand is very tedious. Also, there'...
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Which Mail rule processed a message?
I have lots of mail rules that sort incoming mail into different folders. Today a message got put into a folder it didn't belong in. There are over 40 rules that move messages into this particular ...
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Find mail rules that are no longer being used
I have over 80 rules in Mail, many are for automatically filing mail from service providers to folders. Some of these are probably obsolete, as they were for temporary situations, or refer to ...
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How to set up an Applescript to remove attachments in Mail as part of a rule?
I'm on Sierra and have MailActOn in Mail.
I want to set up an Outbox mail rule to run an Applescript that effectively will delete all email attachments on the message I am replying to, after ...
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OSX Sierra: Mail Rules gone
Just went add a mail rule and it appears that the sierra upgrade has wiped all mail rules:
Is there any way to recover them, or do I need to set them all up again?
Staggers me that apple still can't ...
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Is there a way to know which rule filtered an email?
My Mail.app has at least 100 rules with thousands of conditions and sometimes I get mail filtered that was not supposed to be filtered.
All my filters work by moving unwanted stuff to the trash.
Is ...
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Mail rule to move messages with all-capital subject to Junk
I would like to create a rule on Mail that automatically moves any new e-mail message to the Junk folder if the subject contains all capital letters.
I do not think that thanks to the Mail Rules it is ...
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I am trying to create a script with a keyboard shortcut that will move the selected message in Mail to a specific folder
I have certain emails that come in from various sources, and I need to file them away for future reference. Yes, I can drag and drop it into the folder, but I would like to create a keyboard shortcut ...
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Why does an email rule testing for "<>" in header "Return-Path" not work?
I found that a good fraction of unwanted emails have the header "Return-Path" equal to "<>", so I thought that I could have an email rule to test for this and then move the ...
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Junk Folder Rules: block any sender with an emoji in the address?
I know how to do block a sender for any given emoji, but how can I do this for all emojis?
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Can e-mails that were recently deleted through the “delete message” rule action in Apple Mail still be recovered?
I recently set up a rule in Apple Mail with “delete message” as the action. Unfortunately, I made a mistake in the conditions of the rule. And to my dismay, “delete message” really seems to ...
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How do I set up a Mail.app rule for removing attachments?
While Mail.app offers a menu item for removing attachments from e-mail, I find myself wanting to make a rule for removing attachments from e-mails. Anyone knows how that can be done? AppleScript, ...
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Custom actions to filter junk mail arriving in Junk mailbox aren't executed
I receive a lot of junk mail that is sent to [email protected]. I’ve found that I can set up a rule based on the Original-Recipient header that matches with “rfc822:[email protected]” to delete most of these ...
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Is Gmail stopping rules in Mail.app?
My rules in Mail.app works only when I run them manually. I gues this should not be a case. Rules should work on each sync. On https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mail/mlhlp1017/mac I have found
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Mail Script in Rules
Hopefully, I can explain what I am attempting to achieve. I have an email address designated for SMS ([email protected]) This account gets check via Mail (apple V13). I have a rule that every message ...
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How to work-around limitations of iCloud Mail rules to emulate Mail.app rules?
I have been using Mail.app to manage my personal and work email accounts forever, using many rules in the desktop Mail.app to manage the large volume of messages that pass through my accounts; however,...
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How to run an AppleScript from a Mail rule when screen is locked
I wrote an AppleScript to send an email with a hashtag in the subject to [email protected] and I created a Rule in Apple Mail to run the AppleScript when a new mail is from a specific sender ...
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How can I create an iCloud mail rule to forward emails to an address and move them out of the inbox?
In iCloud, there are rules to forward matching emails to an address and to move matching emails to a mailbox, however I can't find a way of forwarding matching emails to an address and then moving ...
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Accidentally deleted all Mail - How can I get it back?
In Apple Mail, I accidentally marked all messages in the Inbox folder as Junk (I meant to mark as read) and it appears all mail was deleted permanently.
My Mailbox Behaviours specify
Yet the deleted ...
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Make rule for message in mail.app
Is there a way to create a mailbox rule based on the currently highlighted message in mail.app? OSX 10.8.5
I want to create a rule from the application rather than have to go to Mail -> Preferences -...
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