Flinx wrote:I have draconian filter rules that require me to make a whitelist or all my emails would be deleted.
What does that mean? Why would all your emails be deleted? Are you referring to Webmail's Filter Rules and Whitelist or those of an email client?
When the current version of Webmail was first implemented, Webmail Help had a warning about using Webmail's "whitelist" because it disregards security protocols. It included a disclaimer that it's only available if the Webmail configuration permits it. I can't find the Help text now, so that Help reference to "whitelist" must have been removed. Webmail doesn't have a "Safe Senders" list. So, how did you make a Webmail whitelist when this configuration doesn't permit it or provide functionality to create one? Are you just using "whitelist" to reference Filter Rules that send selected sender's email to Inbox?
If you're using Filter Rules with "File into" Inbox followed by "Discard", that's why it appears "Discard" does nothing. As I said in my previous post, those two actions offset each other. You get the same result you would get by having neither rule. Unless it's used with a subsequent rule, a "File into" Inbox rule is never necessary or wanted because it creates a second copy in Inbox. Filter Rules don't apply to email going to Spam and all other email will go to Inbox anyway. Delete or change conditions for your "Discard" rules and you won't need the "File into" Inbox rules. Your email will be much easier to manage. You only need "Discard" rules to block unwanted email that's going to Inbox (not Spam).
Filter Rules with "Discard" action work as intended. I retain a copy of incoming email in Webmail and forward a copy to my primary email account, so I only have to open my primary to check email for both. I created a test Webmail Filter Rule to 'Discard" email from my primary account and made it a lower priority than the "Forward" rule. I then sent an email to Webmail from primary. It was forwarded back to my primary account, but a copy was nowhere to be found in Webmail because the "Discard" Filter Rule deleted it.
