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throwaway613834 on Sept 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch

Slight tangent, but any suggestions on how to do this kind of real-time filtering with Gmail? The filter functionality doesn't quite let you do regexes.

mike-cardwell on Sept 12, 2017 | [–]

GMail filtering isn't very powerful.

Although I run my own mail server, there are other good providers out there which allow you to use sieve based filtering. Fastmail for example:

https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/sieve.html

l-p on Sept 12, 2017 | [–]

Imapfilter [1] would work.

It also uses regexes so it would be easy to convert mike-cardwell's rules.

[1]: https://github.com/lefcha/imapfilter

throwaway613834 on Sept 12, 2017 | [–]

Oh cool, thanks!

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