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

["Jeffrey Stedfast" <fejj helixcode com>]

Okay, I think you totally got me wrong. Procmail does not filter mail that
is already in your individual mailboxes (although it could - but then that'd
be similar to Evolution's On-Demand filtering).

Anyways, procmail filters INCOMING mail and delivers it to your mailboxes,
it doesn't filter your mailboxes (because they are presumably already
filtered).

Jeff

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Muller" <edwardam home com>
To: "Jeffrey Stedfast" <fejj helixcode com>; "Mark Rasmussen"
<mras micron com>; <evolution helixcode com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 1:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Evolution] Problems encountered w/ Evolution...


> On Wednesday 20 December 2000  5:50 pm, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > [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...
> >
> > > 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.
>
> Actually...I do have my local mailbox filtered (procmail) ... or when
using
> kmail (sorry all) by it's own filters(mostly because of the way it handles
> indexes)
>
> Anyway... It is VERY important to be able to filter your mailbox, which in
> some cases is an IMAP account....This way all of those list subscriptions
can
> be filtered to sub folders (either locally or on the imap server) when the
> imap account is accessed...
>
> --
> Edward Muller - edwardam home com - edwardam handhelds org
> 'It's because crappy programs offend me.' --Eric Raymond