Re: [Evolution] Schedule a filter?

[Reid Thompson <reid thompson ateb com>]

On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 17:18 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El dÃa Wednesday, March 10, 2010 a las 04:58:56PM +0100, Martin Jungowski escribiÃ:
>
> > Am Mittwoch, den 10.03.2010, 09:46 -0600 schrieb Brad Doty:
> > > Filters are disappointing if you cannot schedule them.  And they are
> > > TEDIOUS if I have to go to every folder (including Trash) and apply the
> > > filters (and Empty Trash)
> >
> > I think you're misunderstanding the very basic principle of filters
> > here. Their main goal is to perform certain actions on new messages. For
> > example you can use a filter to file all new messages from a certain
> > person, group, or containing a certain key word in the subject into a
> > specific folder upon arrival. They are by no means meant to be run
> > individually for each and every folder to perform actions a scheduler is
> > supposed to perform.
>
> I use filters exactly this way and they work fine; but what the function
>
> Message-->Apply Filters
>
> do? Applying the chaine of filters again to the actual message?
>
>       matthias

If you so choose, you can 'force' apply (i guess i should say re-apply
the filters, since they *should* have been applied already per whether
the filter is on incoming or outgoing messages) the filters to any msgs
that you have selected.