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The current message filter facility is very limited for heavy usage. I make message filter for every e-mail that I get, for which I think I may get more from the same address. Because I am a project manager I am member of many mailing lists and have many and over time changing contacts. Over the years I made about 500 or 600 rules (hard to count). The following points illustrate the limitations that I experience and possible solutions for it:<br>
'''Problem''' When I get a new contact within the project I make a new filter to place mails from that contact in a new subfolder of the "project persons" folder that I made for that contact. But if that contact sends e-mails to one of the project mailing lists I want the mailing list message filter to take precedence. Currently, a new filter gets placed at the top of all existing message filters and I have to click the down button for 400 times to place the new contacts filter below all mailing list filters. Recently, I got 4 new contacts, which meant 1600 mouse clicks, because you can only move one filter at a time. The other option I currently have would be to move all mailing list filters to the top. But as I can only move one filter at a time this means moving 30 filters (for the 30 mailing lists) every time I happen to add a new filter.<br>
'''A number of possible''' '''solutions''' 1) Give new filters the lowest precedence instead of the highest, 2) Allow moving more than one filter at a time, 3) make a list of preferent filters that always get precedence before anything else, while default filters have no preferent order, 4) provide a grouping facility for filters and give precedence options to the whole group, 5) make an option that can automatically finds all filters that have the same assigned actions (typically moving to a specific folder) and replace these filters by one equivalent combined filter. This can help to restrict the growth of the total number of filters.<br>
'''Problem''' I have made folders for e-mails of certain categories, like "ads", "client", "insurance contact", "auditing contact" and made associate filters. I see contacts leave and new contacts arrive all the time. However, old filters that are never applied always remain in my filter list, and I cannot easily find out which of the filters are redundant and which aren't.<br>
'''Solution''' Count how often a filter is applied and when it was applied for the last time. Give an overview of this data in the filter list. When I can sort my list of filters like that I can very quickly see which filters are probably redundant and delete them, so that my filter list doesn't grow out of control.--[[User:Ksluijs|Ksluijs]] 9:44, 17 September 2009 (GMT)
