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Email Filtering / Inbox Forwarding

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Support,

I have just set up my Thunderbird Client, and was wondering if I could forward or filter all emails coming to my inbox to a secondary sub-folder?

Please let me know if you need any further details.

Thank you

Support, I have just set up my Thunderbird Client, and was wondering if I could forward or filter all emails coming to my inbox to a secondary sub-folder? Please let me know if you need any further details. Thank you

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Toad-Hall
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Emails get downloaded to Inbox. You have created various folders for organising and storage. eg: Family, Friends, Hobby Groups, Online Orders etc

It would be convenient if emails could be automatically filtered eg: You want emails sent by family members to auto get put in the 'Family' folder.

  • Menu icon ≡ > 'Tools' > 'Message Filters'
  • click on 'New'
  • Give filter a suitable name : Family
  • Select 'Manually Run'
  • Select 'Getting new mail'
  • Select 'Filter before junk Classification'
  • Assuming you want to add more than one email address - select 'Match any of the following'
  • Choose 'From' and 'contains' and type the first part of email address or enter full email address.
  • (I have several people on one side of family and all of them have the surname in the first part of email address - the bit before the @ but use different servers eg: gmail, hotmail etc - so using surname works in this senario)
  • Click on the small + sign to the right and a new line appears.
  • Enter another condition: 'From' 'contains' and type email address.

Perform these actions:

  • Choose 'Move Message to' and choose the 'Family on mail account' folder.
  • click on 'OK'

Make sure the 'Enabled' checkbox for that filter is selected. Note: filters are applied in the order listed.

Recommend you enable the Filter Log.

  • Click on 'Filter Log' button
  • It opens in new window - select the checkbox 'Enable the Filter Log'
  • click on 'Close'

You can test a filter on a specific folder - let's say you have emails from family members in the Inbox. In list Highlight/select the 'Family' filter you created Run selected filters on: select - 'Inbox on mail account' click on 'Run Now'

You can see what is logged in the 'Filter Log' You can see what was moved from Inbox to Family.


More info on Message Filters: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/organize-your-messages-using-filters

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