Re: [Evolution] Applying filters automatically

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 12:46, Jens Lautenbacher wrote:
> On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 00:55, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > That's because IMAP only allows a single folder to be selected at a
> > time, thus if you are reading mail in "My Folder", how is evo supposed
> > to filter mail in INBOX? It can't.
>
> Why can evo notice that there is new mail in INBOX then at all? Without
> looking at it? If it can notice this, than it can also (temporarily)
> switch over to INBOX, do the filtering, and switch back to "My Folder".

Because when you hit Send & Receive, it doesn't actually open the INBOX,
it just asks how many unread messages it has - and does this for *all*
of the folders on your server except for the folder you are currently
in. If you ever get a chance to read RFC2060 you'll understand.

> > If you want filtering to happen as new mail arrives, then you'll have to
> > do server-side filtering.
>
> I would like to use sieve, but then I think evo should automatically use
> sieve for storing it's filter rules or at least there should be some UI
> for it. Server side filtering is of course the best option in every
> respect.

Evolution will eventually support sieve, but seeing as how hardly any
imap implementations actually support sieve, I don't see it as something
important to have asap.

Jeff

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