Re: [Evolution] Evolution randomly not applying filters

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 01:30, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> My INBOX is on an IMAP server (running Courier IMAP), and since I have
> been using Evolution (since 0.7 or so), Evolution has never reliably
> automatically applied my filters to my INBOX.  (I do have the automatic
> apply option checked.)
>
> I have about 6 filters, some that move messages to different folders,
> and others that color code emails.  The problem is that sometimes it
> works, and sometimes it doesn't.  Evolution is not particular about
> which filters it won't apply.  They have all sometimes worked, and they
> have all sometimes not worked. :)  If I select a message and manually
> apply the filters then it works, so I know this is a problem in the
> automatic application and not my filter configuration.
>
> Is there anything I can do to help debug this?

I guess you can try looking at the CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG output logs (run
evolution-mail in a terminal with CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 set in the
environment).

Also note that if you use another mailer to read your mail at the same
time with any imap server, this feature isn't going to work right.