Re: [Evolution] [IMAP] Filtering and Expunging

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> * Whenever I have new mail, some filters are not applied. For example,
> some (if not all) spam messages aren't deleted or emails are not
> delivered to sub folders. I have to manually select the new emails, and
> press Ctrl + Y to (re)apply filters. As you can imagine, after 2 days,
> you don't want to use Evo anymore. I checked and rechecked each account
> and found the "Apply filters to new messages on this server" on.

Do you have something else that is accessing your IMAP folders?  Like a
mail notification applet or a webmail application.  The definition of
"new" mail is dependent on the IMAP server - if something else has seen
the mail, then it is no longer "new" according to the IMAP server and so
Evo doesn't filter it.

> * When (manually or automatically) my email is filtered, it disappears
> from the Inbox. This is ok. But if for some reason my evolution crashes
> or I lost internet connectivity, lots of old "unfiltered" emails appear
> as soon as I connect to the server again. It seems that when emails are
> deleted or moved, evolutions caches the information but doesn't apply it
> on the remote IMAP server. I search and found no option to do this. I
> really want the emails to be expunged as soon as I gave an order to do
> so.

"Expunging" is a server side function, it's not Evo that does it - in
fact most things to do with IMAP folders are done on the server side.
The only time that Evo caches things like that is if it is working
offline. 

To me, it looks like there is something else fiddling with your mail
boxes.

P.