Filter outgoing messages as well as incoming messages!

[dan nickless]

I was trying to set up a rule to filter outgoing messages, but alas
this seems impossible!

I'd imagine it would be relatively simple to implement, and very
useful indeed!

Hope all's good,

Dan

[Fred Calm]

Not sure what your problem is. My filters work on outgoing messages.

For some of my contacts, I've set up filters to label them with the
contact's name. This was fine when they initiated the conversation and
I replied, or when they replied to my messages. However I wanted the
labels for messages I sent that they didn't reply to. It was easy to
set up complementary filters that looked for email to them instead of
from them, and then label the messages (but not star them).

It works fine. Haven't tried other actions, like archiving
(unnecessary), deleting, forwarding or flagging as spam.

</Fred>

[PLBowers]

On Sep 22, 6:23 pm, Fred Calm wrote:
> Not sure what your problem is. My filters work onoutgoingmessages.

I think the filter most of us are dying for is the capability of
BCC'ing a certain address depending on certain factors. But in
general most filtering actions do not work on outgoing mail and it
seems a logical extension (actually a logical part of core
functionality) to have filtering on both incoming and outgoing mail.

-Peter

[Ted Pavlic]

> I think thefiltermost of us are dying for is the capability of

> BCC'ing a certain address depending on certain factors.  But in

> general most filtering actions do not work onoutgoingmail and it

> seems a logical extension (actually a logical part of core
> functionality) to have filtering on both incoming andoutgoingmail.

+1 -- auto BCC'ing is major

However, it's really important to be able to automatically label
outgoing messages. As mentioned already, this way you don't have to
wait for a response for the conversation to pick up a label.
Additionally, it makes things much nicer for IMAP users. With the way
GMail implements its IMAP, labels are tied to messages and not entire
conversations. So if a label is applied to the second message in a
conversation, although the entire conversation shows up on the webmail
interface, on the IMAP interface the thread starts with the second
message until you manually move the first into the corresponding label
folder. Outgoing filters could help prevent this.

--Ted

[andy_at_signality]

My interest in being able to filter outgoing messages is as part of a
wider issue of making Google Mail a safer choice for use by children.

I'd like to be able to set up things like:

i) the ability to send to only certain recipients (I think this is
called a white list),
ii) the ability to receive email only from senders in an approved
contacts list (not sure if this can already be done with receive
filters),
iii) allowing only certain types of attachments (blocking jpegs for
example),
iv) remove images and urls within emails
v) allow a parent to approve or deny any email sent to your children
via some sort of mail queue
vi) Email a copy of incoming and outgoing messages to the parent.

It's a big ask but an important one.

:)

Andy.

On Oct 23, 6:04 am, Ted Pavlic wrote:
> > I think thefiltermost of us are dying for is the capability of
> > BCC'ing a certain address depending on certain factors.  But in
> > general most filtering actions do not work onoutgoingmail and it
> > seems a logical extension (actually a logical part of core
> > functionality) to have filtering on bothincomingandoutgoingmail.
>
> +1 -- auto BCC'ing is major
>

> However, it's really important to be able to automatically labeloutgoingmessages. As mentioned already, this way you don't have to

> wait for a response for the conversation to pick up a label.
> Additionally, it makes things much nicer for IMAP users. With the way

> GMail implements its IMAP, labels are tied tomessagesand not entire

> conversations. So if a label is applied to the second message in a
> conversation, although the entire conversation shows up on the webmail
> interface, on the IMAP interface the thread starts with the second
> message until you manually move the first into the corresponding label

> folder.Outgoingfilters could help prevent this.
>
> --Ted