Re: [Evolution] Rules for mbox or IMAP account not applied

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

This is getting to be a FAQ.

Evo only applies automatic filter rules to new messages in the Inbox
(even if you tick the option to check for new messages in other folders,
it doesn't apply filters to these).

In the case of IMAP, new messages are marked by the IMAP server with the
flag Unseen before being read for the first time. Subsequent reads of
the message are no longer considered Unseen (note that this is defined
by the IMAP RFC and is not specific to Evo). If any other mail client
(such as another Evo instance) opens a message on an IMAP server then
that message is no longer Unseen and Evo will not consider it to be new,
so will not filter it automatically.

For POP, any mail that Evo downloads will be considered new and so
filters will be applied.

I don't know the specific rules regarding messages in local spool files,
but I don't doubt they're consistent with this in some sense.

Thus the answer to "why doesn't Evo apply my filters?" usually involves
checking to see if something else is reading your mailbox.

poc

On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 00:01 +0200, Philipp Frauenfelder wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have started to use evolution only very recently (switched from mutt).
> I have several accounts in my evolution 2.12 (Debian unstable). Some are
> POP, one is the local spool ($HOME/Mail/INBOX) and one is IMAP. The POP
> accounts are working fine with respect to the rules (mails from mailing
> lists get sorted into the correct folders).
>
> However, the rules are not applied to the mails received through IMAP or
> MBOX although I have ticked the "apply rules" for both accounts. What
> else do I have to check?
>
> In addition to the mailing list rules, I have set up a rule to move all
> the mails from the MBOX to my evolution inbox and to copy all the mails
> from the IMAP to the evolution inbox. These two rules as well are not
> applied automatically. If I hit Ctrl-Y to force the rules, the mails are
> moved/copied as the rules say. What's wrong here?
>
> Thanks for any hints.
>
> Regards