

Google should allow for the sharing of email filters. - vishaldpatel

Just a thought.. for all you gmail employees reading hacker news =). A lot of problems can be solved for my friends if I could somehow share my e-mail filters with them =).
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koeselitz
But Gmail already _does_ allow sharing of email filters. It's something they
added recently, I think - it's still in the Google Labs tab. It's called
"Filter Import/Export."

(Edit: that's the cool thing about Gmail, really - if you can think of a
feature, they probably already thought of it, too.)

Edit #2: looks like it exports filters in XML, which is nice. Here's a pretty
good overview of the feature:

[http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/03/export-gmail-
filter...](http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/03/export-gmail-filters.html)

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vishaldpatel
Many thanks =)

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forkrulassail
Yes, that would indeed be awesome.

I have about 17 emails coming into my gmail account. And have extensive
filtering, prioritization going.

