GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 222179
Request: manual vs. automatic filters
Last modified: 2009-12-28 02:11:52 UTC
There's one feature in Eudora for filters that I'd like to see in Evolution; there you can mark a filter to run automatically when new mail arrives, or only run when you manually run filters. That's pretty handy since there are some filters I have that I would like to always do (i.e. trap mail on mailing lists and shovel it out to the appropriate mail boxes), but then I have some I'd like to do less frequently (i.e. 'okay, my inbox is getting pretty full... time to throw everything from Joe into 'People/Joe' and everything from Bob into 'People/Bob')
we used to have this. i dont know why it got removed. all the code is still there to support it, something just needs to run the filter with 'ondemand' as the type, etc.
One could also set up their filter to only apply to read mail. This would have the same effect as all new messages are also unread. Tools -> Filters Add Make certain "if all criteria are met" is selected. Then make certain the rule "Status - is - Read" exists. Then put in your other criteria and what to do with the message. Should work until the code is changed.
User can filter on demand by Ctrl + Y or Menu > Message > Apply filter This version is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. The current stable GNOME and Evolution version is 2.26. Can you please check again whether this issue still happens in Evolution 2.24 or 2.26 and update this report by adding a comment and changing the "Version" field? Thanks a lot. Again thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed for the version you originally used here. Without feedback this report will be closed as INCOMPLETE in 6 weeks.
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen the bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME 2.28.2 or later, thanks.