GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 309945
IMAP: ability to filter folders other than INBOX too
Last modified: 2012-02-07 11:58:27 UTC
Please describe the problem: Evolution does not allow to define filters for other folders than incoming - but with imap and server-side filters you can receive fresh emails in other folders than incoming. In my case: The server-side filters are used only to separate the new emails into folders. E.g. sort into folders like "bugzilla, forums, news, mailinglists" Filters in evolution are much more powerful - e.g. i could play a sound or colorize the email, or archive it into a local folder if email is older than 5 days. Thats not possible at the moment because filters work only for the incoming folder. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
confirming
I have this same request. I use procmail to sort my mail into folders, but within each folder, i use colors. ie. Blue is mail that I wrote. red are [announce], Red are from my boss(es), pink are CVS commit messages... you get the idea. Filters work if I manually "Actions | Apply Filters". Filters also seem to be very slow.
changing the summary so it includes "inbox" (that's what i searched for and that's the name in the string in the preferences
*** Bug 326152 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm not sure it has to be considere as an "enhancement". It looks more like a bug for me (and a not minor one). But, anyway, this is a detail, I just hope to see it fixed soon ;-)
Ironically I was searching the bugs for one that fit my problem I'm running into (still) and read comment #2 and thought, "man, that's exactly what I do". LOL -- turns out it was my comment! HAHAHA. Anyways, 3 years later and this is still an issue with Evolution 2.24.2 on Ubuntu 8.10 *sigh*
Also, to whomever implements this, note this: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=99930 So, my point is, that if someone (like me and others) is using procmail to filter into folders at the server level, the Evolution filtering should be independent of that "SEEN" flag. There must be a way to do this, as Microsoft Outlook has done it for years and years -- hence my original request of color coding, as that's exactly how I use Outlook. Is "SEEN" the same as "READ"? Couldn't you filter all unREAD mail? (and yes, I have ALL my mail go to daevid.com where it's sorted via procmail and then at work I read it with Evolution and at home I read it with Outlook, so I *know* what I'm talking about and how it should work from a user's perspective)
*** Bug 435791 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 469146 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 206974 [details] [review] eds patch for evolution-data-server; Adds the ability to filter other than Inbox folder to IMAP, IMAPx and NNTP accounts. Use can either tick in accounts' preferences to filter all folders, or he/she can tick this per-folder, in folder properties.
Created attachment 206976 [details] [review] evo patch for evolution; Two changes: a) the folder properties hides the "apply-filter" property from the UI when the folder is an Inbox folder (the account has other option) or it is a virtual folder. b) be able to set property dependency in account editor based on uncheck state (currently only positive dependency worked, "I'm enabled if the option I depend on is set", but I required the opposite here).
Created commit 88b7d1f in eds master (3.3.90+) Created commit 5483b65 in evo master (3.3.90+)