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Email filter doesn't work
How are the emails being forwarded? If they are being forwarded as an attachment, no keyword filtering would work because the email would be as an embedded file (which is usually also base64 encoded, not searchable text), not the actual body of the email.
Also, if the provided email system isn't working correctly for you it may be wise to move to an external email system, such as gmail or outlook - as was suggested in various other email-related threads here... just my .02.
When I send an email from one Hughes account to the filtering account, it gets forwards back to the email account I sent it from as a forwarded email. I have no idea what it's doing with external accounts because they don't get forwarded. I don't want to use an external email.
I'm trying a couple of other things to see if they solve the problem. One is to use the New Filter option under More in the top bar menu where the filter fields are populated automatically; the second is to set the external email sender as "Always Allow" without being processed for Spam.
- maratsade2 years agoDistinguished Professor IV
"I don't want to use an external email."
Read the room. It's been very strongly suggested that you look into a non-ISP provided email account. You may want to listen.
- InvalidUsername2 years agoFreshman
No, I don't want to listen. I"ve had 3rd party emails before. Don't want them
- MarkJFine2 years agoProfessor
So what you're saying is:
1. I have a special situation that the current system (or possibly any system) doesn't support, therefore the system is broken.2. I have been given recommendations by experienced, knowledgeable people. However, those recommendations don't coincide with the specific solution I need to happen, therefore I refuse to listen to it.
3. Based on these discussions, I've been sent an email requesting feedback that I've determined is a joke, because the advice provided doesn't solve my potentially unsolvable problem.
I guess you're on your own.
- MarkJFine2 years agoProfessor
It's noble to try and work through a problem like this, but it's also futile to needlessly flog a dead horse thinking it would bring it to life - though you're welcome to try. ISPs just aren't applying resources to solve problems with internally-provided email systems, and most are just making them going away.
Just sayin'
- maratsade2 years agoDistinguished Professor IV
Given all that's been said here, it seems that the best way forward is to say goodbye to ISP-provided email accounts.
- maratsade2 years agoDistinguished Professor IV
"I'm trying a couple of other things to see if they solve the problem. One is to use the New Filter option under More in the top bar menu where the filter fields are populated automatically; the second is to set the external email sender as "Always Allow" without being processed for Spam."
Did either of these things work for you?
- InvalidUsername2 years agoFreshman
No they didn't work
- maratsade2 years agoDistinguished Professor IV
Sorry to hear it didn't work.
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