Re: [Evolution] Filter issue

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf rocketmail com>]

On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 11:35 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> I don't want to tell you how to run your life and feel free to ignore
> this.  But if you seriously want use Evolution, or indeed Linux, in a
> production environment, then I would strongly advise you not to run a
> distro that chases latest versions - use a solid, stable, enterprise
> Linux such as RHEL/CentOS/SL or SuSe or Debian..

I never used a more stable distro than Arch. Especially Suse and Debian
are very unstable.

> Evolution is most certainly not a "hobby" use MUA - the issue is that
> you are using features that are not enterprise features.  Most
> businesses that don't use Exchange will use an IMAP server with junk
> filtering at the MTA: junk filtering on the desktop is just not a
> scalable solution, nor is the use of POP (we don't even support POP and
> it is turned off on all my mail servers).

Ok, then Evolution simply is not the correct MUA for me, since I'm not a
big company I do everything with the desktop computer.

> Use IMAP.  It would solve many of those problems

No, I used IMAP and it added tons of problems, especially when using it
with Evolution.

>  - it will make
> migration to another client much easier.  If your provider doesn't
> support IMAP or you want to have the mail on your own machine (for
> whatever reason), then you may well be better of running something like
> fetchmail to retrieve your mail and deliver it to your local SMTP server
> - that way you can run a local IMAP server and you can scan the mail for
> spam/viruses and filter it before Evolution even sees it.  The filtering
> need not just be for junk - you can do all the sorting in to different
> folders based on the mail contents as well (procmail is your friend
> here, or use an MTA like Exim).

I already do some filtering at my ISP's server, but I want to be able to
do some things with Evolution, I want to sort Junk and then decide what
to do with it.