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Rules retroactively

David Kraljic

I'd like to run rules on emails that already exist. Not just on new ones. That way I can lable all old emails that meet a certain criteria.

November 21, 2019

Forrest Nash

Very surprised to learn this doesn't exist yet

Arvind Goel

This is huge for us. Any chance this is 'coming soon'?

Brian Davis

This would be a huge upgrade for us! I think about this almost every time I open the desktop app.

Neil Bothams

It is possible to create rules based on "User Actions" not just Incoming and Outgoing email. However there are currently limited options.

One that I would like to see is "star" - if I add a star to an email then I want to be able to create rules based on that condition.

Philippe Lehoux

Merged in a post:

Apply rule to existing conversations

Evaldas Mikelevičius

Feature like in Gmail or in Apple Mail. When I create a rule, then I want apply this rule to all my existing conversations

November 18, 2018

June 21, 2020

William Brown

Yes! PLEASE.

Bastien Bournet-Charrier

You may want to add your vote here as well: https://missive.canny.io/feature-requests/p/create-rules-from-search-filters-and-apply-them-retroactively-to-previous-e-mail

Bastien Bournet-Charrier

Actually saw you've already upvoted, my bad ;-)

Anthony Kong

Is there a button to manually push rules?

Russell Kempster

Manually activate a rule - yes!

Nate Palmer

This is a huge one for us and something we use quite frequently directly in Gmail. We tag for organization and when we need to re-categorize something or add a new category it also requires applying to the existing conversations. Many times it's not possible to manually do this for each email + set the rule.

I can do this in Gmail still but Missive won't pickup the changes since, I assume, they have already scanned those emails and don't look back.

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