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Feature request: Apply filters by selection #104
Description
It is a multi click process to apply existing filters to folders. It would be nice to have something like this that would allow you to select one or more existing filters and then apply them to your messages.
Currently this is only available when you have selected a specific filter.
I would also like to see a way of applying the mark as Spam and Delete (or move to spam folder) function in a cron job.
I move manually identified spam messages to a spam folder and then I use the existing command in Usermin.
Since I use other email clients as well it would be nice if I could use a folder of choice to store these messages and then have a cron job that does the marking and moving of all messages in the folder, rather than doing them one by one or by logging into Usermin and selecting a group of messages and applying the function.
A lot of my email users also use other clients so they never bother to use the learn option available in Usermin. If this was set up I could have them simply move spam into the folder and the learn and delete would be automatic.
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jcameron commentedon Aug 17, 2023
I suppose a button to mass apply filers to existing emails could be added, since we already support doing it one at a time..
ksihota commentedon Aug 17, 2023
Just an additional suggestion regarding the ability to mark as Spam as a cron job.
Maybe just piggyback onto the folder cleaning that already exists.
Expand the deletion criteria to include some extra options such as messages that are marked in a specific way. Example given relates to read messages
In the Action section the default selected folder for Spam should probably be the Spam folder if it exists.
I guess this option would only display if Spam features were enabled for Usermin.
Note: currently it appears that if you had previously enabled this module in Usermin and some of the items are set such as required_score and then you remove the module from Usermin, those settings in the users config file still appear to be active. Post in Usermin forum 122203
github-actions commentedon May 21, 2026
Closing this issue automatically because there has been no follow-up for 3 months.
iliaross commentedon May 21, 2026
Reopened, as this was closed by an automated cleanup run.
ksihota commentedon May 21, 2026
I'll try an address this but its been a long time.
Currently when I view an individual email filter I have these options
The first Items work fine but whenever you select Apply To Email in folder it always returns with nothing. I assume it needs to first search and then delete but that last option the way it is implemented is not functioning and hasn't been for quite some time.
However, I believe the original ask was to allow the user to select multiple filters and apply them rather than having to enter into each filter and do them one at a time. This is all that I see when viewing all filters.
This is where a user should be able to select multiple filters and be able to run them all at once.
The other suggestion was an addition to the automatic folder clearing which is still the same as it was.