From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKRXl-0005Gp-Ui for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:33:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C812E02E7; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:33:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out3.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.76]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5054BE02E7 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:33:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (dsl-203-113-237-148.SA.netspace.net.au [203.113.237.148]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id BECC8D14B3 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:33:08 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution Doesn't Filter Incoming Mail From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1216222044.4114.154.camel@skitfish> References: <1216222044.4114.154.camel@skitfish> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:02:40 +0930 Message-Id: <1216531960.3318.13.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e6d24eff-bfd1-43be-83d2-ab5c66bead96 X-Archives-Hash: 4c4798eb9ea11c761957480d59d3e4bc On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:27 +0100, Richard wrote: > Dear all, > > I use Evolution as my mail client. I receive Gentoo mailing list email > at my GMail address, and access this email in Evolution over IMAP. > > I want Gentoo mailing list messages to go into a Gentoo mailing list > folder in Evolution, and so I've setup an incoming mail filter to take > all mail with a sender or recipient address matching '@lists.gentoo.org' > and move it to my Gentoo mailing list folder. > > Despite ticking the 'Apply filters to new messages in INBOX on this > server' check-box in the Evolution Account Editor, I have to highlight > new email and click 'Apply Filters' in Evolution's 'Message' menu so > that Evolution will actually move them to the desired folder. > > Can anyone help with this? Yes and no! I can explain why, but I don't know the workaround. - there are various "bits" of info set on each email in IMAP folders (eg, "unread", "replied to", "important", etc) and there's one (forget the name) lets say "accessed". MUA's use this accessed bit to decide whether or not to do processing, such as filtering, on each email. Evolution would filter a message and then set "accessed". It does this so that next time, it doesn't filter it again (I presume). It is typical for IMAP servers that do their own filtering to set this accessed bit on each message also, even if it stays in the inbox. (I don't know if there's a gmail setting for this type of thing). The same happens on my cyrus IMAP server, because I have sieve rules going through my mails on the server-side. Therefore evolution sees the messages as already accessed, and doesn't touch it (unless you specifically say "filter"). I've put this together from bits and pieces of experience, so it's probably not technically correct, but I hope you get the general idea :) cya, -- Iain Buchanan "It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them." -- Alfred Adler