Re: [Evolution] 2.4.2.1 intermittently ignores X-Spam-Flag

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 12:44 +0100, Erik Slagter wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 07:12 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Evo only filters messages it considers "new". "Newness" is a state
> > maintained by the IMAP server and means it has not previously reported
> > the message *to any client*, so if you have two or more clients
> > concurrently active on the same IMAP account, only one of them (more or
> > less randomly) will see any given message as being "new" and hence apply
> > filters.
> >
> > Solution: either run only one client at a time, or apply filters
> > manually (Ctrl-Y).
>
> It would be nice if this feature could be optionally enabled...

What feature? This is the way IMAP works, it's not a feature of Evo. The
alternative would be to run all filters on all messages in the Inbox all
the time, which I suspect is not what you want ...

> > > Also, since the mail server runs spamassassin, I would like to tell
> > > evolution not to run it on my machines.  Is there a way to do that?
> >
> > To disable for a specific account: uncheck Edit->Preferences->Mail
> > Accounts->[account]->Receiving Options->Check new messages for Junk
> > contents.
>
> It would be nice if the corresponding buttons would be gone or at least
> greyed out if the functionality is disabled. Now the buttons try to do
> "something", the message is moved to the "junk" folder, even if there is
> no spamassassin at all to perform the requested action. So, if I click
> "junk" instead of "delete" (happens all of the time), first I need to
> "unjunk" the message to get it back, and then delete it. All of this is
> slow, for some reason.

I agree. I'd also like to have a way for Evo to interact with
*server-side* spam filtering, but it's not an easy problem.

> > To do it for all accounts: just disable the plugin.
>
> Evo 2.2 doesn't have this knob :-(

Haven't used 2.2 in a long time so I don't remember (does it have an
Edit->Plugins menu item?). Anyway, 2.6 was released a few days ago so I
doubt you'll see any changes to 2.2 aside from bug fixes.

poc