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Bug 435791 - Filters should be allowed to be applied to specific folders
Filters should be allowed to be applied to specific folders
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 309945
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.8.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[filters]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-05-04 11:18 UTC by Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Modified: 2009-10-28 07:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 2007-05-04 11:18:35 UTC 
Currently Evolution does not seem to be allowing filters to be applied to specific folders. It allows Incoming/Outgoing Rules on Inbox/Outbox (?) only. eg I have a top level folder called Inbox and have another called Evolution-Bugs under my Inbox (a Inbox.Evolution-Bugs notation perhaps), currently I cannot set a rule that allows filtering only on specifically Evolution-Bugs. This would be a good to have since Thunderbird already has this functionality in creation of rules ie Apply the filter to specific target filter. Another UseCase could be that I have an Inbox and an Inbox.MailingLists and using a filter/rule on only Inbox.MailingLists move some mail to Local.MailingLists (say)
Comment 1 André Klapper 2007-05-05 23:06:21 UTC 
huh?
but to get those emails into another folder than the inbox, you have to use filters first, and you can combine that with other filters?

workaround: go to the folder, control+a to choose all emails, control+y to apply filters.
Comment 2 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay 2007-05-06 06:18:30 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> huh?
> but to get those emails into another folder than the inbox, you have to use
> filters first, and you can combine that with other filters?
> 
> workaround: go to the folder, control+a to choose all emails, control+y to
> apply filters.
> 

Ok. Say for an account sankarshan.mukhopadhyay@gmail.com (configured on Evolution) I have two folders - Inbox and Inbox.MailingLists. How do I create filters/Rules (say I want to create two) so that one Rule would applicable to Inbox and another to Inbox.MailingLists ?

The workaround works - but is this a good from a user friendly way ?
Comment 3 Akhil Laddha 2009-10-28 07:16:21 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 309945 ***