RE: [Evolution] Filters on IMAP

[Thomas Mailund <mailund mailund dk>]

On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 23:05, s-luppescu uchicago edu wrote:
> On 01-Oct-2001 Thomas Mailund wrote:
> > Hi list. I've just started using IMAP from evolution and I'm having some
> > problems with filters for moving mails. I want to move most of my mails
> > from the INBOX to a number of different folders using filters, but
> > evolution won't allow me to create such filters. I can create filters
> > for moving mails to my local folders, but not to any IMAP folder. There
> > seems to be no problems with manually moving mails between my IMAP
> > folders, however, so I don't see why I shouldn't be permitted to do so
> > automatically.
> >
> > Is it a bug or a feature? Is there any workaround? I'm using the latest
> > Red Carpet snapshot, btw, on a RedHat 7.1 box.
>
> I think the problem is that in IMAP you don't actually ``receive'' messages

I should still be able to manually apply filters on the folder,
shouldn't I?

> since they stay on the server, so you can't apply rules to them. The best thing
> to do is to use procmail rules to sort them into folders as they are received
> by the mail server.

Progmail might be the solution. I used progmail earlier, I've just
gotten used to using evolution filters lately ;)

        /mailund

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