From d7a0848a91934ec10f21a63031257a2aaef85e46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonas Winkler Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 02:02:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] updated docs --- docs/usage_overview.rst | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/usage_overview.rst b/docs/usage_overview.rst index bd17a845b..4fa19d01f 100644 --- a/docs/usage_overview.rst +++ b/docs/usage_overview.rst @@ -126,7 +126,22 @@ These are as follows: documents from. Keep in mind that the actual consumption process may fail for some reason, leaving you with missing documents in paperless. -Paperless is set up to check your mails every 10 minutes. this can be configured on the +.. note:: + + With the correct set of rules, you can completely automate your email documents. + Create rules for every correspondent you receive digital documents from and + paperless will read them automatically. The default acion "mark as read" is + pretty tame and will not cause any damage or data loss whatsoever. + +.. note:: + + Paperless will process the rules in the order defined in the admin page. + + You can define catch-all rules and have them executed last to consume + any documents not matched by previous rules. Such a rule may assign an "Unknown + mail document" tag to consumed documents so you can inspect them further. + +Paperless is set up to check your mails every 10 minutes. This can be configured on the 'Scheduled tasks' page in the admin.