Add back ability to set filter to send mail to the main Inbox
Please add back the ability to set a filter to send mail to the main Inbox. This is necessary in order to be able to exclude certain special emails before a "catch all filter" send the rest to a specific folder. These special emails need to stay in the Inbox and not get moved to a folder because they are important and I need to make sure I get notifications for them.
For example, if I want make all Facebook update emails go to a "facebook" folder EXCEPT those where the subject contains the word "family" and "office", then I would need to set up 3 filter as follow (in order of high to low priority).
- If From = "facebook" and Subject = "family", then send the message to Inbox.
- If From = "facebook" and Subject = "office", then send the message to Inbox.
- If From = "facebook", then send the message to facebook folder.
The higher priority filters 1 and 2 are there to make sure that emails with subject containing the words "family" or "office' are already "processed" by a higher priority filter. This way, it stops the lower priority "catch all" filter (filter 3) from moving those emails to the "facebook" folder.
But the above filter setup is no longer possible due to the removal of the ability to set the destination of a filter as the main Inbox. And this ability to set the destination as Inbox in filters is what makes the filtering feature powerful. And since it had already been implemented before, it should not be a hard task to reinstate it.
The ability to set the filter destination to the main Inbox is a critical feature that makes the filtering feature useful and powerful. Please have this restored ASAP.
