Re: [Evolution] Search Filters for Sent mail ??

[William Case <billlinux rogers com>]

Hi Thomas;

On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 01:19 +0200, Thomas Mittelstaedt wrote:
> Bill,
>
> I confess, I don't fully understand what you are trying to do! :-D.
> But I can remember having had problems with mails in the Sent folder as
> well and therefore configured in the preferences for each mail account I
> have that the Sent folder is a folder different from the default Sent
> folder. Maybe you can give that a try as well. 
> > From my scarce knowledge of the evolution source code, the "special"
> folders INBOX, SENT and DRAFTS are treated differently from normal
> folders in several places. I am running the current svn trunk version of
> evolution. You may try that, too.
> Hope that helps.
>
> --
> thomas

I confess that in an effort to be explicit, I just got real wordy.  Let
me try again.

All my mailing list mail comes to me through a special mail account and
is filtered into appropriate search folders -- with one exception.  Mail
from my special Linux account billlinux ip com addressed to me
personally.  That mail is shown in a search folder called Personal Mail.
The billlinux ip com account I give almost exclusively to mail lists.
So far so good.

When sending mail or replying to mail lists, because of the way I have
it set up, threads within the mail list search folders are kept together
-- with one exception.  The Personal Mail folder.  Because the Personal
Mail folder is not a mail list my outgoing posts are never shown in the
Personal Mail folder.  Hence I lose continuity and threads.  I would
like to figure out a way to filter those personal outgoing posts so they
also appear in my Personal Mail folder.

I am able to keep threads intact in my mailing list folders not because
of a filter I have created but because mailing lists naturally enough
copy my posts back to me along with other people's.

The above would be easy to accomplish I think, if there was a "not a
mail list" search criteria and/or a way to make message filter duplicate
and loop back to the inbox specifically defined outgoing mail.

So .. can anyone suggest a way to maintain threads in this Personal Mail
Folder?



> Am Freitag, den 03.04.2009, 23:52 -0400 schrieb William Case:
> > Hi;
> >
> > I am having a problem solving the following search filter and folder
> > problem.
> >
> > I have two IP accounts 1) bill ip com that I use for family and friends,
> > and 2) billlinux ip com that I use for my Linux mailing lists and other
> > postings regarding linux.
> >
> > My POP mail arrives in my mbox:inbox account.
> >
> > My first account is message filtered into two folders, +Friends and
> > +Family.  That works fine.  When I compose and send a message to anyone
> > who uses my bill ip com account the message is recorded in the Sent
> > folder and duplicated appropriately in +Friend or +Family.
> >
> > For by billlinux account, when I send a message to one of the mailing
> > lists I am subscribed to, the sent message is not duplicated in the
> > appropriate search folder.  However, those mailing lists send me all
> > mail they have received including stuff sent by me.  As a result all my
> > messages and their threads are maintained in the search folders.
> >
> > However ... 
> >
> > on occasion I have billlinux mail that is off list and my search filter
> > places those mails in a search folder called Personal Mail.  What I
> > can't figure out is how to filter any responses from me (that will
> > appear in the Sent folder) so they are flagged or duplicated as part of
> > a thread initiated in the Personal Mail folder.
> >
> > I have tried several different search combinations but I am still left
> > with having to read incoming billinux mail in my Personal Mail folder
> > and reading the Sent folder to check my outgoing responses.
-- 
Regards Bill
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