[Evolution] IMAP filter question

Pete Biggs pete@biggs.org.uk
Thu, 30 Sep 2004 08:39:13 +0100


On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 00:13, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 16:38 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 15:56, John Schmidt wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 04:31, Pete Biggs wrote: 
> > > > On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 17:34, John Schmidt wrote:
> [snip]
> > I use IMAP exclusively over 4 or 5 accounts and the filters work fine. 
> > I only have to apply them manually (i.e. do Ctrl-A, Ctrl-Y) if I've
> > accessed the mail from elsewhere - for instance, I run Evo at home as
> > well, but some of the filters I use at work move mail to local folders
> > (where I can ignore it), so I leave mail unread when looking at it at
> > home so that the filters at work will move it to the right place - but
> > because I have 'seen' that mail, even though it is 'unread', the filters
> > won't automatically move it.
> 
> If you have control of the IMAP servers, you could implement
> server-side filtering.  

There's tons of server-side filtering in place - these are filterd to
local folders, not IMAP folders.

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