Re: [Evolution] Filters not working

["Bharath Acharya" <abharath novell com>]

** Reply Requested by 11/17/2007 (Saturday) **

Hi,

  The filter flags were not applied because of an optimization patch.
Both the folder filter and Junk filtering has been fixed now. 

Committed to svn trunk
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/evolution-exchange?view=revision&revision=1502

Thanks,
--Bharath

On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 13:31 -0500, Art Alexion wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 13:19 -0500, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 12:07 -0500, Art Alexion wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 10:36 -0500, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 11:30 -0500, Art Alexion wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:34 -0500, Marcus Senna Borges de Barros wrote:
> > > > > > I using Evo 2.12.0 on Ubuntu Gutsy, and after I copied my email from
> > > > > > previous versions to the personal folders, the filters only work when
> > > > > > I select the messages (and also if the filter rule doesn't involve
> > > > > > moving mail to a folder). No message error is given.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Is there any way to find out what is happening?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've been told on this list that this is a known and ongoing problem.
> > > > 
> > > > IMHO the most common reason for automatic filters not working is that
> > > > more than one client is accessing the server mailbox concurrently,
> > > > meaning that messages are not "new" and so are not filtered. See
> > > > http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#Why_do_my_mail_filters_not_work.3F
> > > 
> > > OK, it is rare, but sometimes possible that I am concurrently accessing
> > > the account using
> > >      1. evo 2.6 (Novell) on SLED 10.1
> > >      2. evo 2.12.1 on xubuntu gutsy
> > >      3. MS Outlook 2000 SP-3 on XP SP-2.
> > > 
> > > None the less, this should not be my problem because I have:
> > >      A. The same filters on all of the clients, and
> > >      B. All of the filters move messages to folders on the exchange
> > >         server.
> > > 
> > > For example, I have an exchange folder called "evolution" where all
> > > messages from this list are supposed to be diverted to when they arrive.
> > > That filter is on all of the clients.
> > > 
> > > So, no matter which client accesses the new message first, it should
> > > still be diverted to the evolution folder and accessible to the other
> > > clients with access to that server-based folder.
> > 
> > No necessarily. Remember that Evo follows IMAP semantics (even for
> > non-IMAP servers), i.e. it "moves" a message by copying and deleting,
> > and "deletes" a message by marking it, so until the original folder is
> > expunged there are two physical copies of the message on the server.
> 
> OK, but aren't they marked deleted on the server, and therefore, not
> "read" but unavailable to other clients?  In fact that is the way it
> works when I have Outlook running concurrently.  Outlook applies the
> filter, moves the message, and Evo only sees it in the destination
> folder, not two copies.
> > 
> > Furthermore, the effect of one IMAP client marking a message as deleted
> > while another is looking at the same mailbox is not defined by the IMAP
> > RFC. In my experience Evo uses "lazy synchronization" i.e. it won't
> > recheck message state unless you change folders and then change back
> > again.
> 
> I can live with this, but it is not the problem nor its cause.
> 
> > 
> > In other words, one's natural assumptions about what's happening are
> > often wrong.
> 
> True, and I don't profess to know what is actually happening.  I only
> know what is not happening -- Evo is not applying my filters to new mail
> (it will apply them manually).
> 
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