Re: [Evolution] The lost message (weird filter behaviour)

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 06:24, Mertens Bram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This morning I received a message from a professor at my university,
> neither the sender nor the subject matched any filter so it was supposed
> to be delivered to my INBOX.
>
> However it was delivered to the folder where I keep the messages from
> the OpenOffice.org swriter mailing list.
>
> I checked and double checked the filter I use to put messages in that
> folder (it's quite complicated because I move messages from the general
> mailing list there as well), I even checked the xml file but I can't
> find the reason why it would have been moved to that folder!

mind sending me the rule that moves messages into that folder and also
sending me the message?

> Luckiliy I have a vfolder set up to catch all messaged sent directly to
> me (as opposed to some mailing list) so I was able to mark the message
> as unread and find it.
>
> I then edited the rule that moves all messages from my professors to the
> "Prof UA" folder, this filter is above the previously mentioned filter,
> and chose "apply filters".  The message was moved to the correct folder
> BUT it wasn't marked 'important' until I pressed "apply filters" again!

That's because it applied the important flag to the message in the
original folder; not the message that got moved.

> So I have two problems:
> 1) some filters are acting strange (btw I'm no longer having problems
> with the "apply color" filter

sounds like they are working fine to me :-)

> 2) Is it possible to see to which folder a message belongs when you're
> reading it in a vfolder? If not I think that would be a nice feature! :)

in the development cvs version, yes. You can add a column to the
message-list that shows the source folder for a message.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com