[Evolution] Applying filters automatically

[David Waters]

Hello,

I should have added that I'm sure Evolution is the only IMAP client
looking at my mail, yet when I start it up it doesn't apply filters to
the many new messages in my INBOX.

Maybe there is something wrong with the IMAP server I am using such that
it is not marking mails as "\Recent" correctly ?

Again, it only seems to be mails tha arrive while I'm actually connected
to the IMAP server with Evolution that get filtered.

Dave.


On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 20:24, Dan Winship wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-10-25 at 15:10, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > IMAP filters are only applied when *new* mail arrives in the INBOX
> > folder - what I mean by *new* is that the server declares them as
> > "\Recent" or whatever.
> 
> Ah, right, that's probably your problem. The IMAP server will tell
> Evolution a messages is "Recent" if this is the first session to be told
> about that message. But if you connected earlier from another IMAP
> client, then it won't be Recent when Evolution sees it.
> 
> The reason we only filter Recent messages is because you might have a
> "mark messages from my boss as Important" filter, but if you turn the
> flag off by hand, you don't want Evolution to re-mark it next time you
> start up. (Likewise for if Evolution filters a message into another
> folder, and you decide to move it back to INBOX.)
> 
> -- Dan