Auto Move Mail from Send Folder to Archive Folder
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Vivaldi prides itself on customizability, but its webmail is anything but customizable.
I want to delete the send folder altogether and it's cost me ghost messages stuck in my browser built-in mail, unable to be deleted.
The next best thing is making a filter to move all messages in my send folder to archive, but there is no way to do that.Anyone good at making filters?
Screenshot of the filter making dropdowns.
- There is no rule that takes mail from a certain folder.
- Nothing shows up when I click the box with the garbage can on the right. What do you do in that box?
- What is the modifier, comparator, MIME? There is no explanation on the page.
I just want to move all messages in the send folder into archive.
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Instead of Filters you could look into Settings > Preferences > Special Folders.
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@jane-n said in Auto Move Mail from Send Folder to Archive Folder:
Instead of Filters you could look into Settings > Preferences > Special Folders.
This is the correct solution. Note that you can eg. choose INBOX as the folder for sent mail, if you want your sent mails to appear alongside received mails in the same thread.
Also, as a note, filters only ever apply to incoming mail. For a more technical explanation as to why this is: the mail copy that is placed in your chosen Sent folder is uploaded to that folder via the IMAP protocol by the mail client (the mail client in this case being webmail.vivaldi.net itself). It is not sent via SMTP, so it is never actually "received", so filters are never applied to it.
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AFAICS reassignment of Special Folders is unlikely to achieve what you wish because the change is only applicable within webmail, i.e. your other email client will continue to store sent messages in the system assigned Sent folder or that configured locally on client.
Why do you not want the Sent folder used / shown?
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Just in order to stay true to my signature this is the point in the conversation where I have to state "Folders are evil" thinking that I have contributed something valuable when that is clearly not the case.
