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How to auto forward emails that meet pre-defined criteria

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I wonder if there is any addons or built-in functions that allow the thunderbird to automatically forward emails that meet certain pre-defined criteria to another specified email address?

For example, for all emails with the title including some keywords, or from some senders?

Thanks.

I wonder if there is any addons or built-in functions that allow the thunderbird to automatically forward emails that meet certain pre-defined criteria to another specified email address? For example, for all emails with the title including some keywords, or from some senders? Thanks.

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You can do this with message filters. Go to the menu Tools > Message Filters or click on the Hamburger button and select Message Filters > Message Filters. Here you can create a filter that applies to incoming messages that meet certain criteteria, such as Subject containing a certain string and define actions to apply to those messages, such as forward, mark read and store the message in a folder. Note that the default forward method is chosen, e.g. forward inline or forward as attachment. You can change the default method with the menu Tools > Options > Composition > General > Forward messages as... If you want to forward in a specific format, no matter what setting uyou have configured here, you can install my Forward extension, which adds two filter actions: Forward inline and Forward as attachment.

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Thank you Onno, that works!

Do you also know if/how to forward only part of the body? for example, split the whole message into multiple messages and then send them out.

The reason I am asking is I want to forward some emails to my SMS so I can receive them as text message on my cell, however, there are character limit for the SMS.

Thanks lots.

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Besides, gmail automatically categorizes emails into Primary, Social, Promotion and Forum, is there a way to do the same categorization in Thunderbird so that different emails go to different folders in Thunderbird?

Thanks.