Re: [Evolution] Having to manually fire filters

[Steve Chaney <gunhed57 pacbell net>]

On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 07:48, Not Zed wrote:
> Actually I should clarify it a little, as it can only happen in the
> following cases:
>
>  - using 'spool' or 'spooldir' providers with 'filter inbox' enabled. 
> This shows up as "Standard Unix mbox spools" and "Directory tree of mbox
> files" as the server type.  Although i'm not sure you can even filter
> inbox in this situation.
>  - using 'imap' providers with 'filter inbox' enabled, "IMAP"
>  - using 'maildir' or 'pop' providers or 'mbox', this shoudln't happen,
> "Maildir-format directories", and "POP" and "Local Delivery".
>
> Note, if you're using 'Standard Unix mbox spools', and just want to have
> all your mail moved to evolution's inbox anyway, you should be using
> "Local delivery".  The naming is confusing we know, we'd like to fix
> that if anyone has better ideas.

I solved this tonight after some intense work. I believe very strongly
that the mysterious moving of emails was due to my own error.
Evolution's name be cleared :)

I consolidated the criteria for the windowmaker stuff (I had 4 rules
just trying to force user list stuff into the user list area) into one
filter. Then I did this for a few other ones, and for my 'spam killer'
filters too (I have tons of either/or criteria in there for catching
Korean/asian spam, which is 90% of the spam I get now). I almost am down
to one filter for each major task now.

Once this was done I started getting ALL wm-user emails in the right
place, and other things went to the right place as well. Bug solved. I
think. There had to be conflicting rules in there that I missed until I
deleted them during consolidation.

The jaw dropping part is Evolution LETS me make big filters like that...
:-[      ] You guys and gals will rock the market with this - so when is
Evolution Professional coming out?? :)

Anyways, as for that "some messages did not get received" error, I am
watching for the exact text again and will give it to you via private
email (a screenshot, perhaps). It did happen while I had a mail settings
config window open.

One small question.. can you assign priority to filters? You know, like
they do in Forte Agent (the newsreader)? I wouldn't consider it
CRITICAL, in fact just a minor request really. But it might be sweeet to
have.


-- Steve