Re: [Evolution] Filters not executing reliably

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Evolution only filters "new" messages, ie - ones that are marked with
\Recent. Likely you are getting new mails that are NOT marked with
\Recent.

IMAP client-side filtering simply cannot be 100% reliable. It's
unfortunate, but true.

You should be using server-side filtering if you want reliable IMAP
filtering.

Jeff

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 17:35, Alfred A. Lorber wrote:
> I'm using Evolution 1.2.1 with Redhat Linux 7.3 and my inbox is on an
> IMAP server.  I've set up a few filters for my incoming messages and
> checked "Apply filters to new messages in INBOX on this server". 
> Unfortunately, they filters don't always execute when I get mail. They
> seem to work for a while (a few messages or so) when I first start
> evolution, but then stop.  Whenever I edit the filters, exiting
> evolution, doing a "killev" and restarting seems to be the only way to
> get things going again.  To track what is going on, I wrote a python
> script that does the filtering by subject for me and writes its status
> to a log file.  I execute the script by selecting the "Pipe Message to
> Shell Command" in the filter editor.  By looking at the log file, I know
> the filters are not being fired every time I get mail. If I select mail
> and do a "Apply Filters" the filters get executed just fine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> -Alfred
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