Re: [Evolution] [IMAP] Filtering and Expunging

[michael <cs networkingnewsletter org uk>]

On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 12:12 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > * 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.

I also notice that for downloaded emails sometimes SpamAssassin appears
not to have run on some emails...


> > * 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. 

Delete in Evolution needs to be followed by Expunge (CNTL E) for emails
to be deleted off the server. This works as expected for me.

M