On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 12:44 AM, Milan Crha <mc...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 23:51 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2017-02-13 at 15:16 -0800, Aditya Prasad wrote:
> > > * I tried the mail filters-log-actions and found I only get output
> > > when
> > > manually applying filters.
> >
> > (This is very old information so may not still be valid, but
> > I've used it in the past)
> >
> > There are a couple of Gconf settings to enable filter logging:
>
>         Hi,
> you are right, GConf is too old, not used for years. Up to date
> information is in the User Documentation, namely here:
> https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-filters-
> not-working.html.en
>
> If I read Aditya's message properly, then it had been used.
>

Indeed, that's what I followed.


> I found the logging inefficient for real debugging purposes of the
> filters, because it only logs what succeeded, not what failed. My
> recent issue was that the value I've been checking for in the filter
> rule didn't actually match the value the filter itself read from the
> message. That is, it can depend on the actual filter rules and the used
> values whether they are applied or not.
>
> Aditya, you mentioned POP account, there is no distinguishing between
> unread and newly recognized message, they behave the same. The filters
> are run when the message is copied into On This Computer/Inbox.
> I also do not see any option to disable filtering for POP accounts,
> thus the filters should be applied always for newly received messages
> in the POP account.
>
> Did the filters apply properly when you executed them manually?


Yes.


> You mentioned that the log contained some information only when you
> manually applied them, but I'm unsure whether it were filters you
> expected to be run automatically or any other.


Same filters. They work manually, but nothing runs automatically.

Cheers,
Aditya

        Bye,
>         Milan
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