Re: [Evolution] Multiple filtering nukes messages

[Matt Nelson <mnelson dynatec com>]

Every last one of my filters is a "move to folder" action.  Nothing
else.  I may have multiple criteria on some, but each has a "move to
folder" action only.  

I just went on a ctrl-y spree on some mailing list folders. 
linux-kernel was wiped clean, but at least one message in the ximian
folder was resistant to this action (a message to users ximian com from
me about RH7.1 getting logged-out)

Looking at all my filters, I see that, in some cases, I have more than
one filter moving messages into a given folder.  Any way that could do
it?

-m@

On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 14:45, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> I just tried creating a filter rule to move all bugzilla messages into
> my "bugzilla" imap folder and ran this filter on all messages currently
> in my imap "bugzilla" folder and everything worked as it should - ie,
> nothing got marked as deleted, no duplicate copies of any messages,
> nothing copied out of the bugzilla folder...etc etc
>
> Are you sure you don't have some other filter that is marking messages
> as deleted? Because it surely doesn't seem to be the "Move" filter
> that's doing it.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 17:08, Matt Nelson wrote:
> > This has never happened to me when doing ctl-a ctl-y in the INBOX - I do
> > that all the time.  If the behavior is due to copy followed by delete
> > w/out checking that the destination is different than the source (as I
> > suspect), the only way to nuke your INBOX is if you have filters set up
> > to move messages into your inbox - sorta a odd thing to do...
> >
> > -m@
> >
> > On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 13:51, Ujwal S. Sathyam wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 11:46, Matt Nelson wrote: 
> > >
> > > In evo +cvs.2001.10.15.08.08 I am seeing a dangerous filtering
> > >
> > > behavior.  Try the following:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > - set up a folder, such as "Ximian Mailing Lists" and a filter to move
> > >
> > > incoming messages into it.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > - after a few messages accumulate in the new folder, select it so that
> > >
> > > you see the message pane containing the filtered messages.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > - press CTL-a, CTL-y to filter those messages again.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *poof* all the messages disappear.  They don't even show up in the
> > >
> > > trash.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > It looks to me like the filtering mechanism first copies the messages to
> > >
> > > their destination, then deletes them.  In this case, they get copied on
> > >
> > > top of themselves, then deleted.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Note: all of the above is with IMAP folders.  This may have happened in
> > >
> > > earlier evo's, but I hadn't noticed it till now.
> > >
> > >
> > > This happened to me too!! I thought I did something stupid. Of course,
> > > it is possible for two people to have done something stupid. I lost all
> > > my mails yesterday in my IMAP INBOX after I did Ctrl-A and Ctrl-Y. 
> > >
> > > Ujwal 
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