Re: [Evolution] Filtering Emails.... Why don't they work? ( Richard)

[Christopher Marlow <EvolutionEmail cwm030 com>]

On Mon, 2018-07-16 at 19:26 +0100, Richard Bown wrote:
>
   > If I understand your problem correctly you have multiple mail
   > accounts, probably the one supplied by your ISP and one from MSN 
   > tied to a windows installation.


Yes on the multiple email accounts

And no, on ISP based account... I have the following type accounts. I
have my domain in which my emails end with @CWM030.COM 

And then I have my @MSN.com account in which my domain host uses to
send me emails in case getting hacked, to let me know that there's
going to be a scheduled outtage is going to occure etc. And reciept's
when I pay my yearly dues. 




> If that is the case, the simplest solution is to forward the mail
> arriving in to your MSN to the mail account supplied to you by your
> ISP.
> That way you can just use the ISPs IMAP server to get all your mail.
> Don't forget on the forwarding setting in MSN to deleted the original
>  message once forwarded, unless you want a back up. You should end up
> with no duplicates then.

I was doing at one time actually.... I was having my domain pick up
emails from the accounts I hardly use now days.. AOL, etc etc.... But,
for some reason I stopped doing that. 

You see I keep an archive of EVERY EMAIL that comes in and every email
that gets sent.... And I also keep the emails sorted by years.  I keep
EVERYTHING, like I don't even care if it was an email from facebook,
twitter etc. I kept it. For the just in case I need to reference back
to something some day.

Back when I was archiving all accounts into one place.... Which means I
was doing what you basically said... Forward everything to 1 address
etc. 

What I use to do was everything I read from my domain, AOL, MSN, GMAIL
was read, replied and delt with and then also archived to a folder by
year and if it was inbound or outbound

as seen here https://imgur.com/a/2XcGQWb

And then, something clicked one day in me and decided that I just
wanted to keep everything pure. STUPID MISTAKE! 
 
Ugh I feel sick to my stomach now... I went though all of my archive
folders and deleted everything that wasnt addressed to @cwm030.com 

I deleted emails that were addresses to @yahoo.com or @msn.com or
@aol.com @hotmail.com etc. 

I should of just kept doing what I was doing.... Just archiving
everything to one place. 

It's too bad, I don't have any backup's from a couple months ago that I
could restore and all of those emails from the @yahoo.com or @msn.com
or @aol.com etc. would be restored. 



   > 
   > 
   > So although you can externally filter messages to find duplicate
   > message bodies, its more efficient to stop the duplicates at source.
   > I've tried Chris to put this as simply as I can so you can understand
   > it.
   > 
>
Thank you :) 

Chris