Re: [Evolution] 1.6 nominations

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 09:23, David Johnston wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 11:27, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 16:57, Miroslaw Sankowski wrote:
> > > I believe that in-line PGP is one of the most missing features
> > > of Evolution.
> >
> > This will continue to remain a low priority, unfortunate for some,
> > irrelevent for others.
> >
> > But ... a new plugin system (at least for camel) will possibly make
> > it very easy for someone else to contribute some functionality here
>
> Inline PGP would be nice, a way to pipe to an external verify script
> would do the job, too..
>
> > > 2. News reading.
> >
> > We'd like to, but I doubt we'll have the resources to do this and still
> > find enough time to eat, sleep, etc.  We might poke at it from time to
> > time, but its gonna be a bug marked as "contrib" for the foreseeable
> > future.
> This is a good thing in my book.  There are plenty of good newsreaders
> out there.  More importantly, I don't read news the way I read email and
> so don't want the same things in the UI.  For example, I keep almost all
> of my email, but almost never keep anything I read in news.
>
> My only complaints with Evolution as an email client are speed (it takes
> a long time to do some things) and a few minor quirks (for example,
> filters with multiple actions often only execute the first action).

this suggests that your 'action' logic is incorrect. My guess is that
you are moving a message and then trying to change the colour or
something?

if that is the effect you want, then you need to have Move as your last
action. The filoter actions *do not* follow the message wherever it
goes, it just applies it to the folder being filtered, not the
destination folder.

let me try to give a "graphical" demo:


filter actions:
- set score
- move to My Inbox
- set colour

given the above rules, here is how they are applied:

POP folder            My Inbox
----------            --------
- set score
- move message        - a copy of the message
                        is now here, with the 
                        new score value
- set colour


notice that the rules are *only* applied to the 'POP folder', not to 'My
Inbox'. Moving a message does not change the target.

Jeff

> Thanks for the great work!
-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com