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Bug 346855 - mail filtering in evolution is not perfect
mail filtering in evolution is not perfect
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 422919
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.28.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[filters]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-07-07 09:13 UTC by skanchi
Modified: 2010-09-30 05:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description skanchi 2006-07-07 09:13:16 UTC 
From: srivatsa <skanchi@nexthop.com>
To: submit@bugs.gnome.org
X-Mailer: bug-buddy 2.14.0
Subject: mail filtering is not perfect

Distribution: Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)
Package: Evolution
Severity: Normal
Version: GNOME2.14.1 unspecified
Gnome-Distributor: Red Hat, Inc
Synopsis: mail filtering is not perfect
Bugzilla-Product: Evolution  (2.6.2)
Bugzilla-Component: Miscellaneous
Bugzilla-Version: unspecified
Description:
Description of Problem:
mails aren't filtered to completeness. some are left in the inbox. upon
further invoking, Ctrl+Y the mails are filtered.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1.  setup some filters based on subject/receipents etc
2.  apply all the filters on the i




------- Bug created by bug-buddy at 2006-07-07 09:13 -------
Comment 1 skanchi 2006-07-07 09:31:33 UTC 
the remaining text was chopped off when submitting the report. here is the reamaining of it:

steps to reproduce the problem:
1.  setup some filters based on subject/receipents etc
2.  apply all the filters on the incoming mail  ( i having IMAP in this
case)
3.  some of the mails though pass the filter critera, doesn't get
filtered out

Actual Results:
some mails are left out

Expected Results:
all the mails meeting the filter criteria should be filtered out

How often does this happen?
everytime/many times
Comment 2 Rob Frohne 2007-09-26 20:33:09 UTC 
I can confirm this bug.  I receive a lot of email and have a lot of filters (around 35).  It is routine for me to have to select the last few messages (sometimes many times) and use CTRL-Y.  This is the most annoying Evolution bug I know of at present.

It seems to work better if I select just a few filters.  Also filtering is really quite slow.

I am using a dovecot imap server with Maildir (now U of W).  I am using Evolution 2.10.1 in Ubuntu Feisty.
Comment 3 Rob Frohne 2007-09-26 20:36:28 UTC 
This appears to be the same as bug 422919.
Comment 4 Rob Frohne 2007-09-26 20:44:00 UTC 
In my case, this may be a result of having two clients accessing the IMAP account simultaneously, and not having all filters set the same on all clients.  Maybe we shouldn't rely on the new flag.  Is there something else that could be done?

Rob
Comment 5 C de-Avillez 2010-05-25 17:30:58 UTC 
Ubuntu bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/585375
Comment 6 Bharath Acharya 2010-09-30 05:55:52 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 422919 ***