Use LotusScript or Rules to stop some emails in Lotus Notes from causing a new email alert

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I would like to setup Lotus Notes to move certain incoming emails to a particular folder and mark those emails as already read in such a way that I do not receive a new email alert from Lotus Notes. I am able to filter for the correct email (by subject line, etc) and have Lotus Notes move the incoming email to a folder and mark the message as already read but getting it to not give me a new email alert is the part I am having trouble with.

I do not want to disable email alerts for all incoming emails, just for some that meet certain criteria. I am open to solutions that use Lotus Notes Rules but I am thinking I will need to use LotusScript. I am using IBM Lotus Notes 8.5 on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.

Any help is appreciated, thanks!

@umeli Yes, I have tried the rules. The rules are allowing me to move the email but there is no rule "action" for setting the email as having been read. If I use LotusScript to set the email as having been read (since I cannot do this with a rule) the email will be marked read but only after I receive an alert. Unfortunately, it is the alert that I am trying to avoid receiving in the first place. — scibile

Karl-Henry Martinsson Karl-Henry Martinsson · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-06T14:52:30

I have never done anything like that, but what I would try is to create a Lotusscript agent triggered to run "before mail is received". Then you can use the MarkRead method of the NotesDocument class.

Use LotusScript or Rules to stop some emails in Lotus Notes from causing a new email alert

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