{"id":2973,"date":"2014-06-12T11:03:19","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T18:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2014-12-19T12:00:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T19:00:46","slug":"zimbra-filter-trick-texts-you-when-important-emails-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/12\/zimbra-filter-trick-texts-you-when-important-emails-arrive","title":{"rendered":"Zimbra filter trick texts you when important emails arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s XMission <a title=\"Read other XMission hosted Zimbra power tips from our blog\" href=\"http:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/?s=zimbra+tip\" target=\"_blank\">Zimbra power tip<\/a> identifies how to text yourself when an important email arrives. It\u00a0uses a simple Zimbra\u00a0filter and only takes about\u00a0five seconds to setup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Create the filter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2975\" style=\"width: 306px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/XMission_Zimbra_Filter_Paging.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2975\" class=\" wp-image-2975\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/XMission_Zimbra_Filter_Paging-150x150.png\" alt=\"Filter configuration screen for paging.\" width=\"296\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/XMission_Zimbra_Filter_Paging-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/XMission_Zimbra_Filter_Paging-120x120.png 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Configure an email filter to page you when important emails arrive. <em>Click to see larger graphic.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Within your XMission hosted\u00a0<a title=\"XMission hosted Zimbra Email &amp; Collaboration login\" href=\"https:\/\/zimbra.xmission.com\" target=\"_blank\">Zimbra webmail<\/a> go to Preferences tab then\u00a0Filters, and click on [New Filter]<\/li>\n<li>Inside the Edit Filter window you will name the filter with something easy to remember such as &#8220;Email from client&#8221; or &#8220;Boss emails&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Set conditions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If [<strong>any<\/strong>] of the following conditions are met:<\/li>\n<li>[<strong>From<\/strong>] [<strong>matches exactly<\/strong>] \u00a0&#8220;client@example.com&#8221; &lt;&#8211; insert your important From address here<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Specify the action:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this example we will keep a copy in the Inbox as well as send a copy to the email to text message\u00a0gateway of your mobile service provider.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the &#8220;Perform the following actions:&#8221; area [<strong>Keep in Inbox<\/strong>] will be set by default. We want to leave that and then add one more rule by clicking on the green &#8220;<span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong>+<\/strong><\/span>&#8221; button.<\/p>\n<p>Select [<strong>Redirect to Address<\/strong>] and enter your mobile provider&#8217;s email to\u00a0text message\u00a0gateway address or an email alias you have setup for texting your phone.<\/p>\n<p>Here are examples of provider email to text gateway addresses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AT&amp;T \u00a0&#8212;\u00a0yourtendigitmobilenumber@txt.att.net<\/li>\n<li>T-mobile &#8212;\u00a0yourtendigitmobilenumber@tmomail.net<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Verify the &#8220;[ x ] Do not process additional filters&#8221; box is checked.<\/p>\n<p>Now [Save] your new filter.<\/p>\n<p>From here forward you should receive texts to your phone. If you want, have the important address send you a test email to make sure it performs as expected.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Some content of the email message will likely appear in the texts.<\/li>\n<li>It will continue to text you every time email arrives from the specified address as long as the filter exists. Highlight the filter and click the &#8220;Remove&#8221; button in Filters preferences to de-activate and save for later use.<\/li>\n<li>If your phone plan charges for text messages you may have to pay.<\/li>\n<li>Some email to text gateways experience congestion\u00a0and notifications could take awhile to reach your phone.<\/li>\n<li>To quickly setup the filter click on the important email address in your reading pane, right mouse click, and select Add to Filter \/ New Filter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I hope this quick and easy tip helped you.<\/p>\n<p>You can view other Zimbra power tips here on our blog: <a title=\"See all XMission Zimbra power tips\" href=\"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/?s=zimbra+tip\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/?s=zimbra+tip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We would love to hear from you, please share your experience in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #555555;\">Happy emailing!<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #555555;\"><a style=\"color: #ee4b00;\" title=\"Connect with John on LinkedIn, john801\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/john801\" target=\"_blank\">John<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #555555;\">XMission, Product Manager &#8211; Zimbra Collaboration &amp; Email<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #555555;\">Follow, like, circle, and join us on the social links below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s XMission Zimbra power tip identifies how to text yourself when an important email arrives. It\u00a0uses a simple Zimbra\u00a0filter and only takes about\u00a0five seconds to setup. Create the filter: Within your XMission hosted\u00a0Zimbra webmail go to Preferences tab then\u00a0Filters, and click on [New Filter] Inside the Edit Filter window you will name the filter with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,253,255,376,180,5,39],"tags":[405,422,406,41,389,403,402,378,400,404,377,401,501],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-email-2","category-exchange-replacement","category-google-apps","category-hosting","category-tips-helpful-information","category-zimbra","tag-best-email-blog","tag-best-hosted-email-blog","tag-best-zimbra-blog","tag-email","tag-email-hosting","tag-exchange","tag-exchange-replacement-2","tag-filter","tag-hosted-email","tag-ms-exchange","tag-tips-and-tricks","tag-unified-communications","tag-zimbra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3011,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions\/3011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xmission.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}