On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 12:12 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > > * Whenever I have new mail, some filters are not applied. For example, > > some (if not all) spam messages aren't deleted or emails are not > > delivered to sub folders. I have to manually select the new emails, and > > press Ctrl + Y to (re)apply filters. As you can imagine, after 2 days, > > you don't want to use Evo anymore. I checked and rechecked each account > > and found the "Apply filters to new messages on this server" on. > > Do you have something else that is accessing your IMAP folders? Like a > mail notification applet or a webmail application. The definition of > "new" mail is dependent on the IMAP server - if something else has seen > the mail, then it is no longer "new" according to the IMAP server and so > Evo doesn't filter it.
I also notice that for downloaded emails sometimes SpamAssassin appears not to have run on some emails... > > > > * When (manually or automatically) my email is filtered, it disappears > > from the Inbox. This is ok. But if for some reason my evolution crashes > > or I lost internet connectivity, lots of old "unfiltered" emails appear > > as soon as I connect to the server again. It seems that when emails are > > deleted or moved, evolutions caches the information but doesn't apply it > > on the remote IMAP server. I search and found no option to do this. I > > really want the emails to be expunged as soon as I gave an order to do > > so. > > "Expunging" is a server side function, it's not Evo that does it - in > fact most things to do with IMAP folders are done on the server side. > The only time that Evo caches things like that is if it is working > offline. Delete in Evolution needs to be followed by Expunge (CNTL E) for emails to be deleted off the server. This works as expected for me. M _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
