Filters UI

[girish]

RainLoop had a UI for setting up common filters like vacation and forwarding. It seems SnappyMail has removed this, in favor of showing a raw sieve filter page.

I guess I will post some common filters here.

[girish]

Vacation mail is something like this:

require ["vacation"];
if true
{
       vacation :subject "Out of office" "Off to the alps!";
}

[girish]

Forward all is something like this:

require ["copy","fileinto","vacation"];

if true
{
       redirect :copy "test@cloudron.io";
}

[girish]

I put some tutorials links in our docs - https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/snappymail/#filters

[djmaze]

@girish SnappyMail should support the rainloop script as well (it's in the list named "rainloop.user").
Difference is that SnappyMail also supports all other scripts and you can creat a script to include multiple scripts.

I made it this way because i also use Kmail (and others like Thunderbird) and then RainLoop conflicts with them because in Sieve you can only enable 1 script and RainLoop disables them in favour of rainloop.user

So you could finegrane your instructions how to combine/include scripts and still use the gui on the rainloop.user script.

[girish]

@djmaze oh hey, welcome here! Indeed, each mail client seems to want to disable each other's filter, I think roundcube has a similar behavior. I had to check if include is enabled by default in dovecot and indeed it is - https://doc.dovecot.org/configuration_manual/sieve/pigeonhole_sieve_interpreter/

Is there a plan to add a UI for setting up filters? I wish mail clients at least had a simple "Create filter from this" from the email view.

Great progress with SnappyMail btw, it really is super fast loading.

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in Filters UI:

I wish mail clients at least had a simple "Create filter from this" from the email view.

+1

[djmaze]

@girish thanks.

Oh yes, there are future plans but it is a lot of work to create a good gui.
The issue is at https://github.com/the-djmaze/snappymail/issues/80

But first i'm fixing the OpenPGP issues which also takes some time.

[robi]

@djmaze said in Filters UI:

it is a lot of work to create a good gui

Doesn't need to be net new from scratch. Be inspired.

You can borrow any such from an existing project and improve upon their shortcomings.

Easy, peasy.