Re: [Evolution] Filters appear to copy instead of move.

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 14:09 -0400, Mark Warren wrote:
> I have several filters that move inbound messages to a folder based on
> the sender's address.  For many of them, however, it appears a copy is
> being done instead of a move, because the original is still there.
>
> In ALL cases where this happens, there is an upper level move that has
> already executed.  For example, here's my (abstracted) folder
> hierarchy:
>
> Inbox
>     Personal
>     Company
>         BugReports
>         ServerAlerts
>
> and my (also abstracted) filter rules
>
> 1) If sender is "bug-server mycompany com", move to folder BugReports
> 2) if sender ends with "_alert mycompany com", move to folder
> ServerAlerts
> 3) if sender contains "mycompany.com", move to folder Company.
>
> When bug reports come in, they do show up in Company/BugReports, but
> they also show up in Company.  Similarly, when server alerts arrive,
> they show up in Company/ServerAlerts, but also in Comapny.
>
> It looks like rules (1) and (2) are applied properly, but then rule
> (3) finds messages that have already been moved and copies them?  In
> case its not obvious, I do NOT want any copies - I want all my inbound
> messages in one and only one folder.
>
> Any thoughts?

I noticed the same thing.  Got around it by using server-side filtering,
but that's probably not an option for you.

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Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>