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Comment by EchoReflection | Hacker News Reader

yes. Fastmail can "automatically" do that, if you configure it to have those rules.

If I configure my rules today and then tomorrow I sign up for a new site do I have to amend my rules to also filter the new site? Because that's too much manual management. It's not a lot for a single site, yes, but x10 new sites a month it is too much. It's death by 1,000 cuts.

I don't ever have to do it with Gmail, and that is a tremendous amount of time saved. It is a lifesaver.

If the email body contains the word unsubscribe, send it to the promotional folder.

One rule to rule them all.

And then my banking updates go into promotions. Along with notifications I set up on streaming sites, and newsletters, and patreon posts. It's not that simple.

Someone creating a more intuitive, graph-based UI for rules would be good, otherwise it’s easy to get lost in the overlapping mess, like you have to run the ‘bank email’ rule run before the ‘promotion’ rule, but after the ‘important’ rule.

Gmail’s auto-sorting is extremely simple to look at, but is out of the user’s control, it’s like a secretary handling your letters instead of a predictable system

I receive promotions from my bank, but only because they bothered to ask my email, other banks spam robocalls.

You can create one thematic alias and give it as your email to 1000 sites that belong to that category, they all will send millions messages to that alias.

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