Bug 692535 – option to have filters active on an account should be enabled by default

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Bug 692535 - option to have filters active on an account should be enabled by default


Summary:	option to have filters active on an account should be enabled by default


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	evolution
Classification:	Applications
Component:	Mailer
Version:	3.6.x (obsolete)
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	evolution-mail-maintainers
QA Contact:	Evolution QA team

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Reported:	2013-01-25 14:55 UTC by Alexander van Loon
Modified:	2015-03-10 15:14 UTC

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default filter settings for an account (276.02 KB, image/png) 2013-01-25 14:55 UTC, Alexander van Loon	Details

Description Alexander van Loon 2013-01-25 14:55:25 UTC

Created attachment 234412 [details]
default filter settings for an account

You want to filter some e-mails and create some filter rules. However, for some reason the filters don't work. It turns out that filters are not applied to new messages arriving in the inbox because of a "hidden" default setting. See the attached screenshot. By default both settings to apply filters are not enabled.

This way users have no idea why their filters don't work. I suggest that at least the second option to apply filters on new messages coming to the inbox is enabled by default.

Comment 1 Milan Crha 2015-03-10 15:14:03 UTC

Thanks for a bug report. This was supposed to be fixed with commit 5f9ee92d and I still see there that change, thus the issue might be somewhere else. I checked what current evolution does (3.12.11) and it has the option checked by default, the same as it sticks after I finish the new account wizard. I also tried a Google account configured through GNOME Online Accounts, and it has the option preselected as well. Thus I believe this got fixed meanwhile.