GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 263621
Filters don't work in multiple-mailbox situations, only on INBOX
Last modified: 2021-05-19 12:13:36 UTC
Have your mail fetched by fetchmail then sorted into maildirs by procmail. Set up evolution filters to set mails to different colours depending on the sender. It is impossible to get these filters to run automatically because you can only do that on one folder called "INBOX". It should be possible to run the filters on all maildirs. Running the filters on all folders may be less useful when using remote backends, eg. IMAP, but only running it on INBOX is a serious limitation in the local case.
This sounds like a dup of bug 227536 (Would like to be able to attach filters to specific folders) or bug 245277 (Filter on other box then INBOX over imap doesn't work).
It's similar. It's a request to apply to all mailboxes rather than to be able to apply filters to specific ones though. Swings and roundabouts.
I have the same problem (can't use filters because my Maildir inbox isn't named INBOX). Is there a workaround? Is there some header I can add with procmail that will change the color of the message or otherwise visually distinguish it? It doesn't look like colorization is stored in the mail message itself. Maybe a simple fix is just to make filter rules apply to mailboxes named "." as well as "INBOX".
Nevermind, incoming filters seem to be working now that I've checked the "apply filters to new messages in INBOX" option. I was confused by the wording, and thought filters only applied to folders whose exact name is "INBOX".
Please upgrade to evo 2.2 or greater and check if you still face the problem
Yes, it's still there in 2.3.7. Do you think it should have been fixed?
yup it did.
yup it was worked on. will check further.
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