Re: [Evolution] Antw: Re: Folder for sent mail?

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 08:34 +0530, Sankar P wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 15:03 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 18:57 +0100, Heiko Jansen wrote:
> > > Am Mittwoch, 13. Dezember 2006 18:40 schrieb Sankar P <psankar novell com> 
> > > [Re: Antw: Re: [Evolution] Folder for sent mail?]:
> > > > It seems that the GroupWise server supports appending mails only to the
> > > > Mailbox folder. So you may have to copy it to MAILBOX and have some
> > > > filters to move the mails to desired folders.
> > > >
> > > > But the best option will be to set up Server-side rules to govern these
> > > > and continue using Evoltuion's GroupWise to send mails, as it has some
> > > > advantages over SMTP/Sendmail like message-tracking, priority etc.
> > >
> > > Rules are definitely not a sane option here!
> > > I canÂt even imagine how many complex rules IÂd need to organize my mails 
> > > correctly. And since they would still be rather imperfect IÂd need to check 
> > > the sent-mail folder again and again if something lept through. Also, more 
> > > complex rules mean that itÂs more likely that mails get send to the wrong 
> > > folder and are therefore lost (unless I do time consuming searches).
> >
> > Alternatively (and more reliably IMHO), set up virtual folders for your
> > most common correspondents, defining the search criteria as From, To or
> > CC. This works as far as it goes, but of course doesn't scale as easily
> > as the Kmail way since there's more work involved in setting it up for
> > each correspondent.
>
> Instead of manually setting up the vFolders, you can use "vFolder on
> Sender" from Message menu, to make it (a little) easier.

Sounds like it would be trivial to have a "Search folder on this
correspondent" option on the same menu. I'll add it as a feature
request.

poc