message filter time
I need a message filter that moves messages based on the time of day it was received. It needs to ignore the calendar date. Example: Message 9/5/16 08:14 > Period_1_Folder Message 9/5/16 08:15 > Period_2_Folder Message 9/6/16 08:14 > Period_1_Folder Message 9/6/16 08:15 > Period_2_Folder
I am a teacher who receives over 150 student emails a day, several times each week. Filtering by email address is impractical, as students are added and dropped from my class every few weeks.
I've tried View-Source to look for a special Time tag, but can only find date, which is not what i need.
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Can you write javascript? You probably need a more precise filtering action than is offered by the native filtering system.
Yes, I can write Javascript, or rather I can edit an existing, similar script, fairly well.
OK, the FiltaQuilla add-on lets you launch a javascript as its filtering action. You have a good chance of being able to do the date/time parsing in the javascript.
(I am way out of my depth already. :-( )
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/filtaquilla/
So, this is my draft pseudo-code for it. :/
// Define time string arrays
Def Int varTime1 = ["08:22", "08:23", .. "09:14", "09:15"]
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Def Int varTime7 = ["13:56", "13:57", .. "14:46", "14:47"]
//check the email format for key parts of student emails if message(Reply-To).contains ("21_" OR "22_" OR "23_") AND ("@domain.net") then
//for each time string in the array ForEach varTime1 do //check if the date string in the email message header contains it if message(DateStr).contains varTime1 then //and if it does, move it to a specific folder Message.MoveTo(Inbox\StudentWork\Period1) End . . ForEach varTime7 do if message(DateStr).contains varTime7 then Message.MoveTo(Inbox\StudentWork\Period7) End
//if the email format matches a student email, but is out of hours, move the email message to a specific folder Message.MoveTo(Inbox\StudentWork)
//if the email format does not match a student email, do nothing end