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Bug 245885 - Filters do not apply properly after startup
Filters do not apply properly after startup
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 242637
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-07-06 16:44 UTC by Edward Tandi
Modified: 2003-07-09 22:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Edward Tandi 2003-07-06 16:44:48 UTC
Description of Problem:

I have many filters. When evolution starts, it
will go and fetch new messages from several mail
services. The filters however, are not applied
until I select the source folder that contains the
messages to be filtered. After I select a message
to read, the filtering is applied. After the
filtering is applied, there is usually one message
that should have been filtered but isn't. I have
to filter this one explicitly.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Start evolution and wait for messages to arrive
2. Watch source folder fill up with mail that
should be filtered.
3. Select a message to read (that wouldn't
normally be filtered). Watch mail filter being
applied and note that there is always one message
left behind.

Actual Results:
No filtering until folder is selectde. One e-mail
left behind.

Expected Results:
I expect the filters to be applied immediately and
without leaving the odd e-email unfiltered.

How often does this happen? 
Whenever I start evolution.

Additional Information:
I have many filters because I subscribe to many
mailing lists. This feature is important to me.
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2003-07-07 22:24:24 UTC
this is a duplicate - you should use server-side filtering, it'd be
much more reliable for you (it's really hard to get client-side imap
filtering to work)

closing because there's a dup
Comment 2 Edward Tandi 2003-07-09 21:54:09 UTC
"Use server side filtering" is not an answer. If there is a feature
and I want to use it, I jolly well expect it to work.

As for "It's really hard to get client side filtering to work", well I
hear the violins. Do you really expect me to beleive that after so
many years of people writing open source IMAP clients (that have
filtering capability BTW) such as Mozilla/Netscape that this is a near
impossible task. Hogwash. There is a very good reason I use filtering
on the client side -it is because I have over 5 e-mail accounts. Think
about it.

If this is a duplicate of another bug, could we at least have the bug
number of the one that considered to be the reference.
Comment 3 Jeffrey Stedfast 2003-07-09 22:09:36 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242637 ***
Comment 4 Jeffrey Stedfast 2003-07-09 22:16:12 UTC
perhaps you'd be willing to send us a patch? :-)