Re: [Evolution] Message Filter vs. Search Folders - Open Discussion

[Steve T <stevetucknott yahoo co uk>]

Phil,
I am running evolution 2.28.3 under FC12 and I have always used search folders since FC6. The only problems that I have (which seem to change slightly when the database back end was introduced) is that with large sets of criteria on a single folder, the search folders can be slow (both in the initial start-up of evolution and then switching between those folders).
I have a search folder that probably has 90 criteria (individual site email addresses - ie sender contains @blah..... and recipients contains @blah....) and that takes what seems like an age to load (60 seconds for 475 messages). I also find under this release that the search folder message counts are not updated - ie if a mail exists in 4 search folders (ie it fulfills 4 sets of different criterai - maybe 'last 24 hours', 'family'...etc), and you read it in one of them, the others still show as unread on the folder (ie the folder is still 'boldened' and the count of unread is wrong (although the message in the folder is marked as read ok). That is apparently a known issue in this release.

To me those issues are not that important, as I tend to work out of a single search folder (in my case 'last 24 hours') that has minimal criteria - and only switch to the other folders when looking back to find something. 

I can't comment on message filters as my use of them has been limited. 

On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 14:54 -0400, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
>     On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 14:12 -0400, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
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>     <snipped>
>     I omitted the previous discussion because of this...
>     In the spirit of self-help I decided to play with Search Folders and I certainly answered my own question as to whther or not they're faster than mail filters - they are *allot* faster. Evo displayed ~2600 msg just about instantly. So my question now is, how do you handle the mail when using search folders?
>     
>     It's been stated that one can have to much mail in a single folder. That said, it appears I still need msg filters to move mail into folders and then use search folders to drill down further. Thus, not achieving my goal of abandoning msg filters. Aren't msg filters a kind-of retro thing now anyway? What are all you guys doing?
>     
>     Phil 
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