[Evolution] Scope of filtering rules ; IMAP + filtering: The network load issue.

[Francois Taiani <francois taiani laas fr>]

Hi everybody,

I'm using evol 1.0.8, and here are some few features I would find very
useful to have (sorry if they're already been mentionned):

1) Filter management: In most cases I want the same rules to apply to my
incoming and ougoing mails (so that for instance a reply lands in the
same folder as the email it is a reply to.) There's no way to do it
conveniently in evol (at least in 1.0.8). A possible solution would be a
"scope" option for filtering rules, that could be switched between
"apply to incoming only" / "outgoing only" / "both".

2) The knowledge database says that with IMAP: "New messages don't get
filtered until you open the INBOX folder." The motivation is that : "It
[...] prevent[s] unnecessary traffic on your network."
Though that certainly apply at home, the traffic load is absolutely not
an issue at my office. I would find it very useful to be able to tell
evol it can filter my mail even if I'm not looking at the INBOX (in the
same way Mozilla does it for IMAP).

I'd be very happy to know if some of these wishes have already been
implemented in some future version of evol. (I admit 1.0.8 is slowly
getting obsolete.)

Thanks in advance

Francois