[Evolution] Filters on IMAP

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

You should be able to move messages from folder A to folder B regardless
of where folder A or folder B resides.

Jeff

On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 21:19, Thomas Mailund wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 10:50, Stuart Luppescu wrote:
> > On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 18:39, Thomas Mailund wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2001-10-01 at 23:05, s-luppescu@uchicago.edu wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I think the problem is that in IMAP you don't actually ``receive'' messages
> > > 
> > > I should still be able to manually apply filters on the folder,
> > > shouldn't I?
> > 
> > Nope. The way I understand it, the messages have to actually be
> > downloaded from the server to your client software and stored on the
> > client for the filters to get applied. The filters get applied in the
> > middle of that process. With IMAP, the messages just stay where they are
> > on the server. Since they don't get transferred, there's no way to apply
> > the filters. 
> > 
> 
> that turns out not to be the case. I've tried creating a filter that
> moves mails to one of my local folders, and I can both apply the filter
> and make it work on new emails. Since I can both move mails between IMAP
> folders, *and* apply filters to IMAP folders, I think I should be able
> to combine the two and have filters that moves mails between IMAP
> folders, right?
> 
> 	/mailund
> 
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