Re: [Evolution] Applying filters automatically

[David Waters <dwaters hep ucl ac uk>]

Hello,

I see, thanks for the explanation.

I still think a "cron-job" style application of filters to your Inbox
would be useful. It could be a filter-specific, to avoid some of the
problems you refer to below.

My specific case is that I get hundreds of automatic monitoring and CVS
commit messages each day, and frankly I want them filed away without
ever seeing them in my Inbox.

Thanks again, Dave.


On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 20:24, Dan Winship wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 15:10, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > IMAP filters are only applied when *new* mail arrives in the INBOX
> > folder - what I mean by *new* is that the server declares them as
> > "\Recent" or whatever.
>
> Ah, right, that's probably your problem. The IMAP server will tell
> Evolution a messages is "Recent" if this is the first session to be told
> about that message. But if you connected earlier from another IMAP
> client, then it won't be Recent when Evolution sees it.
>
> The reason we only filter Recent messages is because you might have a
> "mark messages from my boss as Important" filter, but if you turn the
> flag off by hand, you don't want Evolution to re-mark it next time you
> start up. (Likewise for if Evolution filters a message into another
> folder, and you decide to move it back to INBOX.)
>
> -- Dan
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