Re: [Evolution] Move mail to where?

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> With respect of actions, especially picking destination folder for
> copy/move operation on-the-fly based on the message being filtered,
> that's not possible. I agree, it could be an interesting feature. I do
> not know how such thing would look in the UI, because there might be an
> expression, which can be similarly complicated as the condition, but
> also with an output other than true/false.

I presume it would be something relatively simple like the format
string for date(1) with a few extras. So the folder to filter a message
into would be specified by, say, "%Y/%F" where "%Y" is the full year
and "%F" is the contents of the From: header before the @. I seem to
remember that an ancient MUA called elm had a similar feature for auto-
filing mail; Exim (an MTA) can deal with variable destination names in
the filters, in fact my Exim filter has at the very top

  unseen save mail-archive/${length_10:$tod_log}

which saves every single mail I receive into a daily mbox folder.

I suppose it would also be possible to make the expression not user-
defined. So you have a number of fixed expressions that the user can
choose from: that would alleviate the complicated nature of the
expressions, but it's inevitable that the pre-defined ones will never
keep everyone happy and match their workflow.

It's not something I would ever use, but if someone thinks it's worth
it I presume they should file a feature request for it.

P.