Sort Bluewin email automatically: filter rules, email app or AI?

Approach 1: filter rules in Bluewin webmail

In Swisscom's webmail you create folders and, in the settings, filter rules: if an email comes from a certain address or a word appears in the subject, the server moves it into a folder. Because the rule runs on the server, the email is already in the right place on your phone and in every email app.

The limit is the same as with any rule: it only applies when the email looks exactly as you expected. The invoice of a new supplier, the enquiry of a new customer or a subject without the keyword slip through.

Approach 2: rules in your email app

Outlook, Apple Mail and Thunderbird can do rules too. They are often easier to set up than in webmail, but there is a catch: many only run on the device. If the computer is off, the email stays in the inbox, and that is where you see it on your phone.

Approach 3: AI via IMAP

Bluewin mailboxes can be reached via IMAP (server imaps.bluewin.ch, port 993, encrypted). Through this access a tool can read new email and move it into your folders, just as you would by hand. Instead of rules, you describe each folder in one sentence, such as "invoices and reminders from companies" or "enquiries from customers". The AI compares every new email with these descriptions.

Which approach fits?

The approaches do not exclude each other. A filter rule handles clear cases like the electricity bill, the AI sorts the rest.