I have bunch of rules set up, but every now and then something I want to filter straight to a folder winds up in my Inbox. It is kind of a pill to go back and forth between the “rules” dialog and the inbox.
Proposed Solution
It would be really nice if I could build rules from search results (so if I search for something I can just say “make this a rule” and open a pre-filled rules dialog) but I would also love to be able to see my rules and my inbox at the same time, either in separate windows or separate panes.
Related to this: it would be nice if there was a way to test a rule and see which messages it catches or misses.
For a more complex rule, like this one:
it would be really helpful to run that as a search, first, so I can confirm that I’ve got the syntax correct. In this case, I think “recipient” isn’t what I want. But a lot of newsletters are sent out via Mailchimp. I want to tag them as “Newsletters” – Gmail tends to categorize them as “Promotions” which they aren’t or “Updates” which is too general. If I funnel them all into “newsletters” that works better for me.
I think what I want is a search by “Reply-to” header, which isn’t yet an option.
Mail rule creation should be in a separate or floating window with the inbox visible and manipulable. It should not require needing to repeatedly open and close the mail rules (aka Preferences)—which is required for either a multi-criteria rule, or for creating more than one rule at a time—or switching back and forth between Mailspring and another app (such as TextEdit or BBEdit) to copy & paste criteria.
It would be useful to be able to create and modify Mail Rules in a separate window so that we can easily switch back and forth between the inbox or a folder and the rule configuration as currently, in the ‘Preferences’, we can’t see everything we need in order to build the rules.
And/or allow us to right mouse click on an email and create a rule from it even…
