Re: [Evolution] storing Inbox mails from Exchange into local folder

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 19:13 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El dÃa Saturday, July 18, 2009 a las 04:33:26PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribiÃ:
>
> > Concerning the problem itself: Yesterday evening I went a way from this
> > problem, a bit frustrated and without doing more changes in the filter
> > or Evo config. Today morning at home I restarted the laptop and now the
> > filter works as it should and I've played around a bit and now have the
> > filter copying every incoming mail to a local folder for backup
> > purpose. What is not working anymore, and I don't have touched the config
> > with gconf-editor, only later checked it and the logging is still
> > enabled, but it does not log anymore. All this is a bit crazy, like any
> > other power- and colour-full user application :-)
>
> Update:
>
> The filtering gets logged, but only written to the file when I
> terminated the Evo (and its sub processes);
>
> see this: last filtering 16:37:17, last mod of file 19:06 when I've terminated Evo:
>
> $ tail -2 /tmp/evo-filter.log
> Applied filter "backupIncoming" to message from Matthias Apitz
> <guru unixarea de> - "Re: [Evolution] storing Inbox mails from Exchange into local folder" at Sat, 18 Jul 
> 2009 16:37:17
> Action: Copy to folder email://local local/backupIncoming
>
> $ ls -l /tmp/evo-filter.log 
> -rw-r--r--  1 guru  wheel  2304 18 jul 19:06 /tmp/evo-filter.log
>
> a bit problematic when someone is monitoring with 'tail -f' the logfile;
> this should be mentioned in the FAQ where the log is explained.

I imagine the logfile uses standard buffered I/O, in which case it
should really be flushed after every new entry. You might want to
register a bug at http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

Note that the FAQ can be edited by anyone with an account, so feel free.

poc