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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 mail
by mehrdadn 7y ago
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.)
- pmlnr 7y agoGmail filters a sh*t compared to what Sieve with regex is capable of.
- mehrdadn 7y agoMaybe 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.
- pferde 7y agoMost 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.
- mehrdadn 7y ago"Filter messages like this" is literally in their drop-down for precisely this...