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some more ideas on improving the Message Filter dialog
'''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>
'''Another solution:''' Allow drag-n-drop of filters in order to move them up/down the list would be a solution. If the filter groups idea gets implemented, also allow drag-n-drop filter(s) in/out of a filter group.<br>
'''Another nice idea''' is to implement if/then/else/case of and regular expressions support for filter tokens.<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)
