When receiving a message in reply to a one I sent earlier (with an ID found in Reply-To header param, for instance), would it be feasible to have rules that affect the original message instead of the response that I am currently receiving?
Like set a tag to it… or whatever..
May be it is a wrong way to solve another problem, which is to know which of my messages have already been replied… or not.
Don't know it it could make sense for other purposes…
I think it would be possible to have filters affect other messages. The tricky part is that messages are frequently spread over many folders, and just knowing the messageId is not sufficient to easily find it. Searching the entire message store for a message in a filter action would not be a good idea.
But if you could limit somehow the search folders (say to the current folder, the Sent folder, and the Inbox for the account that the message in received on) than that might be doable.
So I added a request in my database for a filter action to add a tag to the message specified in the In-Reply-To header. Whether I will get to it anytime soon is another question.
I'm back with another request, related to the previous one. Why about adding filter TESTS (not actions this time) based on the Replied-to message when a message is received, instead of the received message itself?
The goal is for instance to mark important message sent out that need an answer. And do an action when the reply to the original message is received.
For experiments, these are all doable with javascript searches and actions within the existing FiltaQuilla. I recently posted an example of one of these based on a forum request. If you could give a specific example of a search you would like done on the In-Reply-To message, then I might be able to throw together a javascript search that would do it.
As a general concept, I think you probably are looking at a good direction. The In-Reply-To email is a valuable source of information about a particular incoming email, and searches based on that could be useful. A few experiments and examples using a tool like the javascript search in FiltaQuilla would help clarify that.
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