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Re:Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It by mehrdadn on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:40AM (#20612926)
IMO writing good filters can be pretty hard. I literally spent what must've been an entire hour on updating just 1 Gmail filter today. All going through my mailbox cross-checking to make sure it would mark exactly what was needed, no more, no less.

(It'd have been a lot easier if I was more tolerating of errors, but the entire reason I was updating it was to eliminate errors that had started getting annoying. And I'm guessing errors are one reason why some people don't use filters.)

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Re:Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It by pferde on Monday August 05, 2019 @08:52AM (#20613748)
Most people can get by with nothing more complex than "put all messages from this sender to folder X", or a few similar options. Heck, even MS Outlook makes this easy.

If Google makes this difficult, that's on them.

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Re:Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It by mehrdadn on Monday August 05, 2019 @08:56AM (#20613773)
"Filter messages like this" is literally in their drop-down for precisely this...
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Re:Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It by pmlnr on Monday August 05, 2019 @07:09AM (#20613067)
Gmail filters a sh*t compared to what Sieve with regex is capable of.
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Re:Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It by mehrdadn on Monday August 05, 2019 @07:20AM (#20613132)
Maybe for you, but the capabilities and mechanics of the filters is not where I run into trouble, and regexes would not make much difference. Gmail filters are already pretty darn good for my needs. Figuring out the correct conditions conceptually is the hard part.

OTOH, I'm told you can't apply Sieve filters retroactively? That sounds completely awful.

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