Re: [Evolution] Having to manually fire filters

[John Harlow <jharlow bravepoint com>]

As I read your explanation below, this shouldn't be happening. I read
email from 4 accounts, all of which are pop accounts on other boxes. No
reading whatsoever is done on my local unix mail. 

John


On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 22:21, 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.
>
>
> On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 20:25, Not Zed wrote:
> > If messages arrive while filtering is in progress, this is still going
> > to happen.  Certainly nothing has been changed in the code for months.
> >
> > I can't see it being fixed any time soon either because of the way
> > filtering works.  Its probably not that hard to fix, but isn't likely to
> > be a priority ...
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 07:42, Steve Chaney wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 13:26, John Harlow wrote:
> > > > I've noticed lately, that my mail filters will occasionally miss a
> > > > message. Then if I select that message, right-click and choose apply
> > > > filters, the message is then filtered properly.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone else seen this?
> > >
> > > I just noticed this, too.
> > > I hope it's fixed in the next version.
> > >
> > >
> > > -- Steve
> > >
> > >
> > >
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