# Smart Rules and Emails

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/smart-rules-and-emails/18249>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** object, marketing-email\
**Created:** [January 21, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/smart-rules-and-emails/18249 "2020-01-21T17:09:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![vdecker](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/vdecker/32/18373_2.png) [@vdecker](https://community.hubspot.com/u/vdecker)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2020, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/smart-rules-and-emails/18249/1 "2020-01-21T17:09:55Z")

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Allow for more flexibility for smart rules in emails. For example, I want to create a smart rule for a property on a contact record but don’t want to have to keep creating new lists for all of the different values/properties. It would be nice to have that flexibility in the smart rule.

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**Author:** ![JoeDavies](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/joedavies/32/46207_2.png) [@JoeDavies](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JoeDavies)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/smart-rules-and-emails/18249/2 "2020-07-06T20:40:02Z")

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This is a great idea - I just came over to request the same!  
Not only is it time consuming to create a set of middle-man lists to manage this, but if things are happening quickly, it will cause errors, or slow things down with the requirement for a few minute pause step to allow the contact to appear on the list.  
This is especially important if there is no suitable default value, which would make an email not work properly.

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**Author:** ![gmounier](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/gmounier/32/89259_2.png) [@gmounier](https://community.hubspot.com/u/gmounier)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/smart-rules-and-emails/18249/3 "2020-08-25T15:04:02Z")

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Key to personalize email marketing newsletter. Saw many ideas related to this same core requirement. I upvoted as many as I could.

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**Author:** ![Melly2022](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/melly2022/32/81147_2.png) [@Melly2022](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Melly2022)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 12:33pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/smart-rules-and-emails/18249/4 "2021-03-24T12:33:43Z")

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++ Allow “Is not a member of” even that would be amazing!

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**Author:** ![Mhutton](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/mhutton/32/82797_2.png) [@Mhutton](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Mhutton)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 11:04am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/smart-rules-and-emails/18249/5 "2021-05-25T11:04:44Z")

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Agree to the above and also additional comments.  
++ Allow AND as well as OR funtions when including lists would also be great!  
i.e.  
Variant 1: Is in list A AND B  
Variant 2: Is in list B OR A  
Default variant: not in either list

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**Author:** ![RLicau](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/rlicau/32/51418_2.png) [@RLicau](https://community.hubspot.com/u/RLicau)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/smart-rules-and-emails/18249/6 "2023-12-06T18:16:42Z")

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+1 to this.  
I get that there’s a limitation with contacts. but if lifecycle stage property is possible to be selected, other properties should be available to enable smart rules, too.