GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 221872
Feature request - filters
Last modified: 2002-04-12 03:24:39 UTC
Package: Evolution Priority: Normal Version: 1.0.2 Synopsis: Feature request - filters Bugzilla-Product: Evolution Bugzilla-Component: Mailer Description: Hello, One of the few things I don't like about Evolution (compared to most other e-mail programs) is that it doesn't apply filters to my INBOX messages unless I'm actually viewing the INBOX. Since Evolution's filters are quite slow at times compared to other e-mail programs, this can be time-consuming and annoying. It would be nice if the filters would get applied as soon as the mail comes in, even if I'm currently reading another folder at that time. I realize that this would probably require a change in how Evolution interacts with the IMAP server, since right now I believe you're just polling the mailboxes' status to get the unread message counts. My mailbox is IMAP, and the server is running UW's IMAP daemon (well obviously, given that I'm at the UW!). The following Evolution options are also set (which may or may not be useful): SSL is enabled for IMAP (not outgoing, since I'm using Sendmail locally) Automatically check for mail every 2 minutes Check for new mail in all folders Show only subscribed folders Apply filters to new messages in INBOX Hide deleted messages Preview pane is turned OFF System is Red Hat 7.2 with the most recent Ximian packages as of two days ago.
Probably related to bug 211587, but not sure.
what other mail clients do imap client-side filtering? mozilla is maybe the only other one? if we had to open the INBOX everytime you got new mail to filter and made you wait while reading folder JoeBob, it would probably annoy you more, right? The only way to solve this then is to have multiple connections to the IMAP server which is not even guarenteed to work not to mention it's a nightmare to code. what you REALLY want is server-side filtering which means you gotta setup procmail on the server.
Okay, here are the clients that I know will do client-side filtering on IMAP folders: Eudora, Outlook, Pine (as of 4.2 or 4.3), "old" Netscape (4.7 at least) plus of course Mozilla. The only one of these I don't have direct experience with is Outlook, but I just talked to a co-worker who uses it for his IMAP account and runs filters (IMAP folder -> IMAP folder). I certainly can use procmail, but I don't believe Joe Average is going to want to do that (or, for that matter, even have access to it).
pine does filtering? since when? afaik, pine can't even filter local folders nevermind imap folders ;-) anyways, whatever...doesn't matter we accept patches :-)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216927 ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 210163 ***