Email Processing Rules

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The processing of incoming emails is controlled by those rules which have been pre-defined. An example is shown below.

 

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Edit rules with the Email Processing Rule Wizard, which appears when a new rule is added or an existing one is edited.

 

The order of rules can be important, so the up and down arrows (right of screen in above image) allow setting the rule order as required. The rule description at the bottom is that of the currently selected rule.

 

Process an email and add a contact

When an email arrives into Jim2 it will attempt to match the domain name or the email address. Jim2 provides the option of adding that contact to Jim2 from the email address when it doesn't exist.

 

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Recipient contains can be restricted to To and/or CC, and it can also be case sensitive.

 

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How Jim2 handles duplicate emails sent to two different email addresses

It is important to understand that Jim2 will only process one identical email, even if it has been sent to two email addresses (ie. sales@ and support@), as it is aware that the other is a duplicate.

 

This means the email rules need to be set up to ensure the one email is tagged to both accounts.

 

To address this, use the Recipient (Search To or Search CC) (addresses) contains email rule condition (see above image).

 

There would be one rule for each email address, which would ensure both addresses (the one in the To and the one in the CC) are tagged to the email.

 

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It is important to remember that, if a user marks the email as Read, it will appear as Read for the other tagged folder(s) as well.

 

To match the above, the email folders should only have a tag configured (not an email account), as per the GUI recommendation when creating an email folder in Jim2.

 

Further information

Email Rules: Introduction

Email Rules Overview

Email Processing Rule Wizard

Creating a Rule

Execution Order

 

Rule Conditions

Rule Conditions Overview

Rule Actions

Using and Testing Regular Expressions

How Email 'From' Works

Linking External Emails