Creating Email Filter Rules In iCloud and Gmail

[@MrFrankieblanche]

Dude. Super helpful thanks. The rest of the internet is out to lunch on this topic. You saved the day.

[@francisexperience]

This is great advice, my goto place for the best mac expert in the business.

[@coolstuff_.]

Cool. Saved me a major headache :)

[@emma_s.234]

Very helpful video, thank you!

[@armandorodriguezbarcenasjr499]

Awesome feedback! Could we back up the Emails onto an external hard drive?

[@macmost]

That's a very complex thing. It largely depends on what your email service is, and also what you mean by backing up, how you want the process to work, how often, how many, etc. Not simple.

[@armandorodriguezbarcenasjr499]

Thank you for taking the time very much appreciated @@macmost

[@BFX4REAL]

ALL THANKS TO YOU

[@achilleskontostathis8321]

Thanks great vid! if I add gmails to icloud mail account, will the filters I apply in gmail also apply to my view in icloud?

[@shannagarroutte7829]

Thanks!!

[@roshanekka9687]

Thanks for sharing the information

[@muddyexport5639]

Good Vid! What would be better is to be able to check your address book to see if the "From:" is a valid email address (also a good phone number if that is the "From:"). If good the route wherever, else, delete or route to junk/spam/questionable, etc. Scripting with SQL or grep might be a viable solution.

[@curiocurioso1740]

Great video, thanks 🙏

[@turboduckhead6179]

Can you use the Rules feature to organise emails from certain senders into folders instead of mail boxes?

[@194253715]

Very nice informative video. Made the mistake of trying to create rules in outlook 365 connected to my icloud via imap. Outlook failed and lost hundreds of emails from both local folders AND the server. Should have followed your video first by creating rules on server rather than client (used to work just fine in my old corporate account connected to exchange server).

[@lesliespagat9467]

Hi Why occasional emails go to my icloud folder, not my regular gmail or all mail. I usually endup missing them. Thanks so much

[@macmost]

Not sure. Check your settings, and also your rules, both on your local machine and on iCloud.

[@mehmd1913]

Gmail allows you to add a string of emails to the same filter, you add a separator | in between the email addresses. Can this be done in iCloud mail?

[@RaulSupreme]

Probably a silly question but what I'm trying to avoid is setting up rules for essentially all of my various email accounts, as I believe this is a little counter-intuitive. As all of my accounts are connected using IMAP, is the method you've shown at the start of the video simply just for iCloud email account? Hope this makes sense.

[@macmost]

If you are using multiple accounts across multiple services, there's no way for one to know about the settings for another.

[@rudramangla1422]

Awesome 👍🏼🤩

[@271830066]

Hey Gary, Do you know when or if Google Gmail will ever come to the MacBook Air M1 computer????

[@macmost]

Not sure what you mean. You can access Gmail in the Mail app like any other service. Any email app should be able to handle Gmail. You can also access the Gmail web site in Safari.

[@271830066]

@@macmost what I am asking will Google have a native gmail for MacBook like they have for iPhones and iPads

[@macmost]

@@271830066 No idea. I doubt it. There isn't even one for Windows.

[@271830066]

@@macmost thanks Gary, do you forward all your gmail to your iCloud email or do you keep it separate

[@macmost]

@@271830066 I just receive it directly from Google, no forwarding. Why forward?

[@rudramangla1422]

Which MacBook do you have??

[@TROY-ue4vx]

is there a way to receive just gmails primary mail in apple mail?

[@macmost]

Do you mean that thing Gmail does where it breaks the inbox into sections? No. You need to use their web interface for that.

[@matthewcarpenter4716]

Can we export the rules we already have made on our Mac to iCloud ?

[@macmost]

No, there's no way to do that.

[@matthewcarpenter4716]

@@macmost Thank you Gary!

[@rfry200]

wish there was some specific examples. Can you have the provider filter multiple words in 1 rule? what does that actually look like?

[@macmost]

Take a look at what your provider has. Each email service is different so it is hard to provide examples.

[@MellowMelodiesHub612]

HI,I have an old ipad which i havent used it for a while,i can use all apps,but unable to connect it to the net.Says no internet.

[@macmost]

Nothing to do but to try again and make sure you enter the password for the Wi-Fi network correctly.

[@MellowMelodiesHub612]

@@macmost ok thanks.

[@kendjordan]

Is there a way to export gmail filters and import them into mac mail?

[@macmost]

Nope. Even if you could, the types of rules don't match up since they are different systems.

[@kendjordan]

@@macmost good point. Writing an app to bridge two BNF rule sets may be intellectually fun, but perhaps not worth the effort. I just happen to have a lot of rules in gmail.

[@jimmybondy1140]

Hi ... HOW can Mails from MAC saved in an Archiv or other Box automatic....?

[@macmost]

Depends on your email service. But with iCloud and Gmail, just use the Archive button when you are done reading the email.

[@fashion.boutiq.tailor]

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[@mlgneo2855]

this rules gear doesn't exist on the web version.

[@macmost]

Web version of... ?

[@mlgneo2855]

@@macmostiCloud

[@Assassin1959]

Is there a way to stop receiving sex text on my wife iPhone messenger? There is no way to get out of the group and blocking is not an option. Thanks and great videos

[@macmost]

Why is blocking not an option? That would be the way to do it. If these are SMS messages, then check with your mobile phone provider for more blocking options too. Maybe change your phone number.

[@Assassin1959]

@@macmost yes, they are SMS messages and we have tried pretty much everything and seems nothing helps. I will check with Verizon to see if they can help. Thanks for your quick response 