Re: [Evolution] Msg Filters Loosing Destination Folder

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Phil,

I had the same problem when expunge of a folder would cause an error. I
copied the folder somewhere, renamed the original and then moved the
copy back to the original. 
evolution would update the corresponding filter rule, to now contain the
name <folder>.old, which I did not want.
It might be of help to know that the rules are in an xml-file in
~/.evolution/mail/filters.xml, which I can edit and the running
evolution would pick up the changes right away.
Maybe you can just make a copy of filters.xml before you run your 
procedure and then restore the copy on top of the falsely updated file.
Hope that helps.

Am Freitag, den 28.05.2010, 11:01 -0400 schrieb Philippe LeCavalier:
> Hi All,
>
> I use message filters (not search folders) to sort incoming mail on an
> IMAP server in the wild. Several times over the past few years I've
> made changes (knowingly and unknowingly) to Evo or my system in
> general, which resulted in Evo loosing the path of the destination
> folder for ALL my rules. Every time this happens it all starts with me
> noticing Evo is running something along the lines of "Updating Message
> filters" and is usually followed by the feeling of despair and a loud
> sigh on my part. That because it never works. The general rule stays
> in tact(that's nice) but the path to the destination folder is lost
> -blanked. In this particular case, I understand that Evo had to erase
> the path altogether because I had to re-subscribe to all my folder
> (possibly another issue for another posting...) so if Evo can't see
> the folder it understandably should remove the seemingly invalid path.
> The inherent problem with that process is that once I re-subscribe to
> all my folders and it runs "Updating message filters" again it has no
> record of said previously set path.
>
> 1)
> I don't know if my expectations are realistic or even remotely
> possible but could I not ask (post a bug) to have Evo remember paths
> before clearing them in the likelihood that the user might need said
> path?
>
> 2)
> To be perfectly clear, I can live with the "knowingly" but the
> "unknowingly" is different. Today this happened  for no apparent
> reason. Can someone out there help me determine the cause please and
> pretty please? Hint: it problably starts with the reason why I was
> unsubscribed to everything but the root, my Inbox.
>
> Hoestly, I'm not certain what is need info-wise to troubleshoot this
> so here's some info and please ask away for more as required.
>
> -IMAP hosted on WAN, Courier I believe but I could confirmand get
> exact versioning if it matters
> -Debian SID/testing
> -Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686
> -XFCE4 4.6.1.3
> -Evo-data-server 2.28.3.1-1, Evo-common 2.28.3-1 & Evo 2.28.3-1+b1
> -Sqlite3.6.23.1-2 & libsqlite3.6.23.1-2
>
>
> Cheers,
> Phil 
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thomas