Re: [Evolution] Nested folders ending in vfolders & recursive surch of folder trees

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 17:17 -0700, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Running Evolution 2.2.2 on a debian unstable system. I'm a little
> obsessed with organization, so my local "Contacts" Folder looks e.g.
> like this:
> > Contacts --> D --> Doe, John
>
> The "Doe, John" subfolder contains all emails I ever got from John Doe.
> I recently migrated from sylpheed, and recreating this was quite
> painful ... now I have to realize that I'm not able to recursively
> search my complete "Contacts" folder tree ... bummer!

Please file a feature request (priority "wishlist") in
bugzilla.gnome.org, if there isn't any already.


> An alternative would be to dump all my mail into one big folder and
> create a vfolder for John Doe's mail ... turns out, however, that I
> can't create a nested organizational structure as
> > Contacts (normal folder) --> D (normal folder) --> Doe, John (vFolder)

Yes, you can. In fact I'm using a structure like this for quickly
gathering how my SA rules hit. Although there is no "normal folder"
involved.

Create a vFolder named "Contacts/D/Doe, John". This will create a
subfolder structure for vFolders. You even can cascade them. Like using
another vFolder as "specific source", if you like to.

Anything in the "Unmatched" vFolder obviously are Contacts lacking a
specific Contacts vFolder, then. ;-)


> How do you guys organize your mail and can anybody give me a hint on how
> to tackle my issue(s)?

Well, I do use physical folders a lot, aggregating and specializing some
of them using vFolders. But that's just how I do things using procmail
and IMAP, where procmail already does the bulk of the work constantly in
the background -- like sorting a lot of mailing lists and filtering Spam
and virii.

HTH

...guenther


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