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Show HN: The two most useful email filters
The two most useful email filters that I have on my personal account automatically move the following messages to a "from-robots" folder:
* Any message that contains the word "unsubscribe"
* Any message from no-reply@
As a side note: please do not send emails from no-reply@yourdomain.com If you want users to engage with your communications you need to give them an option to respond.
- cloudking 4y agoUnsubscribe is a good one if you really don't have any useful email subscriptions, but don't you subscribe to any useful ones like Substack newsletters etc?
- llagerlof 4y agoNice tips.
- yuvalsteuer 4y agoAwesome!
- mackatsol 4y agoI’m impressed. I’ve been going about it backwards. Thanks!
- MichaelZuo 4y agoThanks! Smart way to go about it.
- butterknife 4y agoThank you! I have also good success with :contains 'return-path' 'my=email.address'
- aaomidi 4y agoOh this is smart
- leros 4y agoThe noreply filter is going to have a lot of false positives. There are many valuable emails that just notifications and come from noreply@ in addition to emails that can be replied that come from noreply@ with a reply-to.
- aix1 4y agoMy thoughts exactly. I just ran a quick search of my inbox for noreply@ and almost everything it found is highly relevant. Just in the last few days: 1. a refund from an airline; 2. new health insurance policy documents; 3. a response from an ombudsman; 4. membership documents for a professional body; 5. reminders for upcoming 1:1 lessons I'm taking; 6. a couple of notifications I specifically set up. Sending these to a separate folder would just turn that folder into a second inbox I'd have to check alongside the main one.
- wodenokoto 4y agoYeah, I get a lot of the bills that I need to pay manually from variations of noreply@ addresses.
- redhale 4y agoI've seen some companies try to get around these by using the phrase "To change your email preferences..." rather than "unsubscribe". I think "email preferences" / "notification preferences" / "communication preferences" are good additions to this short list
- soheil 4y agoSeems like a no-brainer. Thank you!
- otsaloma 4y agoAgreed on the unsubscribe, I have two rules: (1) List-Unsubscribe header exists or (2) message body contains "unsubscribe".
- clnq 4y agoSimilarly, currency symbols + noreply/no_reply sender addresses could be useful to filter out receipts. Though it might make sense to have a higher-priority rule or an exception for your bank domains.