Rules (filters)
Rules sort new mail as it arrives, like Gmail's filters: skip the Inbox (archive), mark as read, star, apply a label, move to a folder, or delete.
- Go to Settings → Rules and press New rule, or open a conversation and choose More → Filter messages like these, or fill in the advanced search (the sliders in the search box) and press Create rule.
- Fill in what to look for: From, To, Subject, Has the words, Doesn't have, Size, Has attachment. Every filled field must match; MailFai shows how many conversations match now.
- Tick what to do, and press Create rule. Tick Also apply to the … conversations that match now to sort the mail you already have too.
- Several alternatives: separate them with OR (in From and To also with a comma), as in anna@example.com, bertil OR cecilia. Words must all appear; put an exact phrase in "quotes".
- Rules run in the order of the list; arrows move a rule up or down, and the switch turns it off. Don't apply later rules to it stops the list for mail that matched.
- Tizfai mailboxes: the rules run on the mail server itself, so they work even when MailFai is closed, and your phone's mail app sees the sorted mail. Filters and the vacation reply you set up in SOGo keep working next to them.
- Other providers (Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo, iCloud …): the rules run in MailFai as new mail arrives, within seconds.
- Spam is left to the mail server: rules never move mail it marked as spam.
- Forward it to sends a copy of matching mail to another address (yours stays where it is). As in Gmail, the address must agree first: under Forwarding addresses below the rules, add it, and MailFai mails a six-digit code there from your account; enter the code to verify it. Deleting the address stops the forwarding.