[Evolution] Sync Notebook & PC?
Jean Neron
jneron@cwi-appx.com
Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:12:46 -0600
Well, the problem went away by itself. The hard drive crashed on the
laptop, so I had to reload everything, and now the filters work the same
on both the destkop & laptop.
The filters were all keyword based, no external scripts or anything.
Weird, we'll probably never know why it did that.
Thanks.
Jean
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 08:18, guenther wrote:
> > Interesting thought, but no, the user name is the same and home
> > directory is the same on both machines. I'm the one using them, after
> > all....
> >
> > On the desktop, evo is in /home/jean/evolution. The laptop has a
> > /home/jean directory, and /home/jean/evolution from the desktop is
> > mounted in /home/jean/evolution on the laptop.
>
> Yep, should work.
>
>
> > I have a couple of filters that move suspected spam to a folder called
> > 'Junk'. On the desktop, they work as they should, but on the laptop,
> > every piece of new mail gets moved to 'Junk'. I suppose I could add a
> > color as it moves it, and find out which rule is triggering the move
> > to Junk, that might explain something.
>
> What are those filters exactly?
>
> As you mount the ~/evolution/ folder only(?), filters that rely on
> external scripts may be broken. That is in particular 1) checking the
> return value of a non-existent script and 2) a script that stores its
> own databases in different locations than the ~/evolution/ folder.
>
> Any Bayes filtering very likely will use the latter approach. So
> differing databases on your work machine and the laptop may be the
> culprit then.
>
> However, just a shot in the dark. HTH...
>
> ...guenther
>