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Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account

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On 5/30/2021 10:28 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
> Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Nevertheless, Thunderbird is getting the gmail messages to me in both 
>> the gmail account and my main e-mail account.
> 
> You aren't confusing the linked inbox folder (or All Inbox or Unified
> Inbox) to perceive the e-mails there as listed in every account?  That's
> just a global folder linking the inboxes from multiple accounts as a
> convenience for viewing all e-mails in all accounts.


No, I wasn't. I didn't even know about that choice, but I just turned it 
on to see if I like it.


> The Unified Inbox view is a really old feature back to 2014, or earlier.
> View menu -> Folders -> Unified.
> 
>> I also have both e-mail accounts set up with Outlook (Office 365) on my 
>> Android phone, but I can't find what you suggest there.
> 
> The MS Outlook app on Android supports the Gmail API.  However, it would
> show new e-mails in the Gmail account you defined in the Outlook app.
> It would not mix or copy them to the other account you defined in the
> Outlook app -- unless you defined some rules to have the app send the
> new e-mails received in the Gmail account to the other account.  Alas, I
> see no rules or settings in the MS Outlook app for Android that would
> transfer e-mails from one account to another.  Android email apps tend
> to be extremely basic.  MS probably assumes if you want to use rules
> that you would define server-side rules in your MS account, not in a
> local app.
> 
> I didn't see anything that blared forwarding or rules in the Gmail app
> (bundled with Android), but I don't use that e-mail app.  I suspect they
> also assume you do forwarding or rules defined in your Gmail account,
> not in a local app.
> 
> Oh, and both those Android apps also support a unified inbox view.
> 
> ...
> 
> UPDATE:
> 
> I see in your later reply that you found the problem was with a
> client-side filter you defined in Thunderbird.  I had focused on
> server-side filters since those will exercise when new e-mails arrive,
> not when you happen to get around to loading your local e-mail client
> (Thunderbird) to then let it run its own filters.  If a filter (rule)
> can be defined on the server (which means the filter conditions and
> actions are robust enough to warrant using server-side rules), I prefer
> to use server-side filters.  Less work for the local client.  For push
> (forwarding) or using filters to resend new e-mails to another account,
> makes more sense to have the server do that instead of the client.
> 
> Glad you figured out it was Tbird doing the e-mail transfer between
> accounts via filters in Tbird.
> 


-- 
Ken

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Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-05-30 09:36 -0700
  Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-05-30 09:47 -0700
    Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-05-30 09:56 -0700
      Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-05-30 10:37 -0700
        Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-05-30 11:20 -0700
          Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-05-30 14:25 -0700
            Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-05-30 16:06 -0700
              Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-05-30 16:21 -0700
                Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-05-30 16:34 -0700
                Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Nobody <jock@soccer.com> - 2021-05-30 19:06 -0700
      Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2021-05-30 12:53 -0500
        Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-05-30 11:48 -0700
          Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-05-30 11:52 -0700
            Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-05-30 11:56 -0700
          Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2021-05-31 00:28 -0500
            Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-05-31 07:56 -0700
  Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-05-30 10:47 -0700
    Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-05-30 11:50 -0700
  Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2021-05-30 10:57 -0700
    Re: Undoing copying gmail messages to another e-mail account Ken Blake <ken@invalidemail.com> - 2021-05-30 11:50 -0700

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