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

[Edward Muller <edwardam home com>]

On Wednesday 20 December 2000  8:27 pm, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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).

Yes, but in the context of an IMAP server, you may not be able to filter the 
messages on arrival with something like procmail. So you need a client side 
tool to do it. This is esp. true if your mail server is something like 
exchange or an ISP based IMAP server (one which doesn't allow a shell 
account, or have procmail setup for client use).

> 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

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