@protonprivacy there's some functionality I'd like to have in #ProtonMail.
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@protonprivacy there's some functionality I'd like to have in #ProtonMail.
I created a filter that based on a CC mail address put a Label on every match, favorited the mail and put it in a separate folder.
Great. Except that there were 1600 mails using that CC that were filtered which shouldn't have been matched. I made a mistake.
And now there's NO way to correct, except for manually opening each and every mail to unfavorite and remove the label, then place it in the folders they originated
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Laxystem (Masto/Glitch)replied to smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊) last edited by [email protected]
@smallcircles the same applies to Gmail. In general, filters like these should be applied when opening the label, not when mail arrives, imo. This also applies to #ActivityPub software.
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Now juggling with temp folders and temp filters to try to get things right again. If I can filter out the mismatches, luckily these are discardable notifications that I can delete and no longer have a polluted labeling and favorites collection.
PS. Seeing that just moving 1600 mails to a temp folder takes minutes.. there must be some busy queue that request lands in? I gather the action itself shouldn't take that long to execute. Applying a mail filter takes much longer even.
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Laxystem (Masto/Glitch)replied to smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊) last edited by [email protected]
@smallcircles tbh it feels like a custom SQL query built from your filter settings shouldn't take much, in fact the most expensive part is probably constructing the query string?
I.e. I don't understand what's the bottleneck there - is it just too much users/resources?
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Filter action just completed. I only needed to filter the 1600 msgs in one folder, but it only processes all messages. The filtering took nearly one hour. 🤯