Why not just have notifications only for that filter? I get not checking emails, I get so many that anything important is just ignored along with all of the other crap but if you already have a good filter, just use that.
I suppose I hadn’t discovered that! I set this up back in 2002, well before the iPhone and push notifications.
It’s worked for decades, and I haven’t needed to look for a different solution until now.
Thanks for the tip!
This is the weirdest notification workflow I have ever heard of.
Oh I’ve gotten weird about email, for sure — but this is more of an example of “the prototype goes to production”.
I put these filters in place long before iPhones were a thing, and when the only devices that supported push notifications were BlackBerry (maybe? I didn’t have one) and pagers.
In the early 2000s if I wanted to be notified to go home and check my email for something important, the email->sms gateway was really my only option.
It’s probably worth a revisit now though!
Right? The "notify me when this specific email comes in" problem has been well solved but on the other hand: https://xkcd.com/1172/
Really? You think "relay certain emails to my phone" is on par with that?
Email is a standard protocol and nobody owns it. Text messages have the carriers as gatekeepers and they want to get paid.
The formatting is often quite lousy but it’s enough to send me a nudge to check my email for a message from the library, a job I applied for, or whatever.
I wouldn’t have heard about this about it being posted here, so thank you!