Notify arrival of new message
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Hi.
I have had 2 Vivaldi mail adresses for several years. I use the webmail to consult them.
One of them always sent a "notification of arrival" message to an external address for each new message received.
I wanted to get the other to do the same: I looked at the parametres of the first and found it was done by a filter. I noted the details and went to the second account.
The filter options weren't the same so I returned to the first address to check. I noted them all and tried to create the same for the second address, but it wasn't possible.
I made a minor change in the first filter to test it - but I shouldn't have, because it stopped working completely.I deduced that this option was no longer available so I tried to create a new filter to do it, using the only possibility: "Respond with a mail" (for ALL mails).
I set the content and subject of the response and put my external address as the reply address of the sender. But it didn't work.
(In fact this filter doesn't work at all - I've tried different settings - and the online help is no help).
Any ideas?
Thanks, regards -
Can you post the details of the filter you noted from the first account?
I see a Reply with message action but no Respond with a mail. Did you mean the former rather than the latter?
FWIW the Reply with message action is suited to Out of Office reply rather than what you seek.
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So sorry I didn't reply before: I don't get notifications of message arrival!
(I have at least 20 mail adresses for different purposes and I don't automatically check all of them regularly.)
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Yes, the filter is now "Reply with message" (in case of "Out of office") because the original "Respond with a mail" choice which used to work is no longer available.
(Sorry I can't be more precise - I didn't "note" the details of the first filter for the other account: I just remembered it and went straight to the other, which is when I discovered that the possibilities were different.)
Thanks, regards -
It seems the auto forward and redirect functionality was removed in 2020, see Does "auto-forward" work in Vivaldi webmail? | Vivaldi Forum
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Thanks for the reference and the confirmation.
It's a pity that I touched the filters of the first account, because even if the option to set up auto-forwarding had been removed it still worked until this year if it was already in place.
(When I've got time I'm going to try to use the "Out of office" function to imitate this even if it isn't meant to.)
Regards, Christophe
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That would be futile as the Reply with message Action only results in an email being sent to the sender of the message that matched the filter's Rule — there is no way to notify another email address of the receipt of the message.
Consider making a feature request (here Mail, Calendar & Feeds Feature Requests | Vivaldi Forum) for an email notification of new message to be sent to an alternative email address; hopefully by constraining the content of the notification to From, To, and Subject it will not be open to abuse by some miscreant.
