Re: [Evolution] Problems encountered w/ Evolution...

["Jeffrey Stedfast" <fejj helixcode com>]

[comments below]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rasmussen" <mras micron com>
To: <evolution helixcode com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 12:30 PM
Subject: [Evolution] Problems encountered w/ Evolution...


> I am using evolution .8 on Red Hat 6.2... I've been using it for a few
> days now, both at
> home and at work and here are a few things I've ran into...
>
> 1) When I first set this up, and added my IMAP to my Mail Subscriptions,
> it didn't automatically
> show my Inbox - when I'd say get mail I'd get nothing.  Only a couple
> days later when I figured
> out the "manage subscriptions" was I able to then select the Inbox (and
> quite a few others it
> didn't start off with).  Are there parameters for why it would grab some
> folders automatically but
> not others?  I would think the Inbox is a definite start off with it
> thing.

We only list folders that are subscribed to. The reason some were
automatically started with was because your previous mail application
subscribed to some folders and not others (either by your own doing or by
it's own?).

> 2) When I setup filters, they are not done automatically to the messages
> coming into my Inbox
> under IMAP.  I have to select the messages and then apply filters -
> maybe there is a place to
> set this, but I haven't found it yet.  Am I missing something?

Okay, the reason filters are not applied to IMAP mail is because IMAP is not
like POP, it's more like a remote filesystem similar to the local mbox
format that Evolution uses. You don't want filters applied to your local
mbox when you open it and with the same logic, you don't want filters
applied to your IMAP folders when you open them. Now, Dan Winship has some
ideas about how IMAP *could* be filtered but I'm not sure exactly how that
is going to work.

> 3) As I read the messages in my Inbox under Imap, the # of new messages
> which shows up
> in bold on the folders list ( INBOX (1) ) do not decrease.  Nor is it
> decreased when I do a Get
> Mail and there is nothing to get.  Now if it increases the #, it is
> updated.  Anyhow, just something
> to add to the bug list.

Yep, we're aware of this - I think Dan plans on having this working soon?
It's just a feature that we hadn't gotten around to finishing before 0.8 was
released.

> Overall though, I am VERY impressed - this program is great, is going to
> be the bomb once it
> is finished.  I already like some of the features better than outlook...

Thanks,
Jeff