Print mail automatically using a filter in Gmail.

[Kaspar Breetvelt]

Hi all.

I work at a place where it is very important that a mail must be printed for a certain job. (This regards a packing slip, witch is necessary for the post man) 

This is send to us by email but not always noticed, and therefore i would like to make a filter in gmail so that a email is automatically printed out on a certain printer, whenever it meets the criteria of the filter.

Is this possible? 

Thank you.

Regards, Kaspar.

 

[Zack (Doc)]

No, because filters work on the mail in your mailbox on the server, not on your computer where the printer lives.

You could, however, make a filter that finds these important mails and gives them a special label, or forwards them to another box.  Then you just regularly check that filter for new messages and know that those all require printing as soon as possible.

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[Kaspar Breetvelt]

Yes i am aware of that, but i want them to come out of my printer. When i am busy working i want them to automatically come out of the printer without having to do anything.

Some printers offer a mailbox of something to mail stuff to, to automatically be printed. Like a fax, maybe i can forward them using a filter. I have to look into that. But it would be more easy if gmail would have a option to print a mails automatically.

Op zaterdag 1 maart 2014 19:41:42 UTC+1 schreef Zack Tennant:

[Zack (Doc)]

Since "normally" printers are a function of the computer you're on, I don't see how they could make a filter, which operates on e-mails even when you're not connected, do something to the printer.

Your idea about using a printer with e-print capability and forwarding the messages makes a lot of sense, and likely could work for you.

[John Lamont]

This post is old now, but for anyone else looking, you might be able to use ifttt.com - set it up so that when an email with "subject line" arrives, ifttt.com sends it to an HP printer.