GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 740895
select folders to watch for new mail
Last modified: 2014-12-22 16:30:58 UTC
Right now the only options to select folders for new mail are: * INBOX * all folders * all subscribed folders But let's say I have 200 folders into which I might manually file mail from my INBOX. I need to subscribe to those 200 folders to have evolution see them so that I can (i.e. drag and drop) mail from my INBOX into them, yet none of them will have mail put into them outside of evolution, therefore evolution does not need to monitor them and shouldn't waste cycles monitoring 200 extra mailboxes every minute (yes, I like to know when mail comes in, right away). But let's further assume I have an additional two or three folders into which mail might get filed outside of evolution, by procmail, or sieve for example. I need evolution to monitor those. So now my choices are manually check those two or three folders periodically or have evolution monitor 203 folders for me of which only two or three will ever get new mail. There should be another option to monitoring which let's me cherry-pick which folders I want evolution to specifically monitor.
Thanks for a bug report. This is a duplicate of bug #691465. As a workaround, let evolution: [ ] Show only subscribed folders (unchecked option) and let it update only subscribed folders. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 691465 ***
(In reply to comment #1) > As a workaround, > let evolution: > [ ] Show only subscribed folders (unchecked option) But then I won't be able to see those folders to move messages into them, if I understand correctly. Glad to see work on the duplicate bug has had some activity though.