[MlMt] Mark an email as read based on content

[leo]

Thanks Randall and Fredrik.

Your suggestions make total sense! Much appreciated!

Happy emailing
Leo

On 20 Sep 2024, at 23:59, Randall Gellens wrote:

> On 20 Sep 2024, at 10:41, Fredrik Jonsson wrote:
>
>> leo 2024-09-20 19:34 wrote:
>>
>>> I have sometimes a little flood of invoice emails (HTML format) 
>>> coming in. At lot of them have in their content the string 
>>> “€0.00”.
>>
>> My solution for this is to set up a smart mailbox that collects all 
>> the relevant e-mails.
>>
>> Then I add a rule to that smart mailbox that marks all new e-mails as 
>> read (or whatever else one want to do with them).
>
> If the messages are all arriving in the same mailbox, there's no need 
> to create a smart mailbox, just create a rule in the Inbox where they 
> arrive. To avoid accidentally marking other mail that happens to 
> contain “€0.00”, add some other criteria. For example, if they 
> all come from the same address or there's something else about them, 
> add that as well.
>
> 1. Right-click on the mailbox in which they arrive (e.g., "Inbox" of 
> the account) and click "Edit Rules..."
>
> 2. his opens a pane with your existing rules.
>
> 3. If you haven't yet created any rules for this mailbox, click 
> "Create Rule..."
>
> 4. If you have existing rules, the pane shows a list of rules on the 
> left and one of the rules on the right. Click the "+" in the lower 
> left.
>
> 5. A form to create a new rule appears on the right.
>
> 6. In the "Description" field give the rule a name (e.g., "Mark 
> Invoices Read").
>
> 7. Click the "+" under "Conditions".
>
> 8. This will add two lines. The first says "All of the following". 
> Under that is a sample rule, e.g., [ From -> Name ] [ Is ] [ John 
> Appleseed ].
>
> 9. Change "From -> Name" to whatever header field the invoices all 
> have in common that other messages probably don't have, and the value 
> box from "John Appleseed" to whatever value will be in that field. You 
> may need to change "Is" to "Contains" or some such. E.g., if the 
> messages all come from "invoice-billing at invoice.com", change the rule 
> to something such as [ From -> Address ] [ Is ] [ 
> invoice-billing at invoice.com" ].
>
> 10. Click the "+" at the right of the rule you just edited. This adds 
> a new rule form below.
>
> 11. Set this rule to something such as [ Unquoted text ] [ Contains ] 
> [ €0.00 ].
>
> 12. Click the "+" under "Actions". This creates an action form. Set 
> this to [ Set Tag/Keyword ] [ Seen (Read) ].
>
> 13. Click "Commit" on the lower right.
>
> --Randall
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