Re: [Evolution] Filtering incomming messages with IMAP mailbox

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 15:06, Nick Jennings wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I've switched to from POP to IMAP over the past day, and the one
> difference that is really annoying that I haven't been able to figure
> out so far is when I get new mail, it all goes to the INBOX, and only 
> after I click on the INBOX does all the mail get sorted based on my
> filters.

That's because that is where your SERVER delivers the mail. In IMAP
land, you are only able to ever have a single folder open at a time and
so we cannot filter INBOX when you are reading MyOtherFolder.

If you want filtering to take affect before mail gets delivered to your
IMAP INBOX, then you need to setup server-side filtering.

>  Previously this was all done as the mail was downloaded, going to the
> appropriate folder immediately.

Actually, it went to your server's INBOX first here too :-)

>  One other thing is that I am pretty anal about folder organization. I
> talk with alot of clients and staff about different projects and things
> so I have several folder "sections" which contains subfolders, and so on
> up to 3 to 4 levels deep. 
>
>  Whenever I start up evolution, or when I click on a "non mailbox"
> folder (meaning, i don't keep mail in it, just more folders) I get an
> error 'No such folder <foldername>'. I think this is because the IMAP
> server hasn't created it as a folder since no mail has gone into it, so
> aside from creating some black message to keep in there to avoid the
> annoying error messages, how can I stop these messages from popping up?

Create the folder on the server? I don't know of any other way.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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