Re: [Evolution] vFolder on Header

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 13:33, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 13:17, Not Zed wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:43, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> > > Is it just me, or is the "Specific Header" selection missing from the
> > > vFolder search criteria missing? It's mentioned in Evolution's Help...
>
> Not Zed replied:
> > Yes, its not there intentionally.
> >
> > To make vfolders more efficient, they mostly only work on in-memory data
> > which only includes some specific headers.
>
> Hrm.
>
> Ok, well, here's what I'm trying to do: My incoming email is filtered
> server side. Among other things, it is passed through bogofilter to mark
> spam. I am shunting the mail to various folders using maildrop,
> specifically sending spam to a Spam folder.
>
> All these Maildirs are then brought down to my laptop using offlineimap
> (sorry guys, but I got tired of evolution's less-than-ideal IMAP
> implementation causing evolution to barf). Evolution has one mail
> source, a local Maildir tree of folders.

Why appologise?  Its crap and we know it.

> I have a vFolder called "Unread" which (you guessed it!) is all unread
> messages. The trouble is that the shunted Spam is, although correctly
> identified and moved out of the way, still marked unread of course. I

If you are using maildir, then just set the [S]een flag on the message
when it gets moved to the spam folder.  The flag is specified as part of
the filename, using the standard maildir mechanism, of appending
":2,XXX" to the filename.

e.g.

  12122.zZedZone.12:2,  is unread
  12122.zZedZone.12:2,S is seen (read).

This could possibly be done as a post-process on the download script.

> can't filter out these messages in my vFolder spec because evolution no
> longer supports vFolders on arbitrary headers and so I can't filter on
> X-Spam-Status (in this case).

no longer?  it never supported arbitrary headers.

> Manually specifying the folders for the vFolder to work on is not an
> attractive option, as I have LOTs of inbound folders; it's only one that
> I want to exclude.

I thought we could probably add a 'all folders but these' filter type,
but haven't looked into it further than that bean of a thought.

> Any suggestions?