** Reply Requested by 11/17/2007 (Saturday) ** Hi,
The filter flags were not applied because of an optimization patch. Both the folder filter and Junk filtering has been fixed now. Committed to svn trunk http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/evolution-exchange?view=revision&revision=1502 Thanks, --Bharath On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 13:31 -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 13:19 -0500, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 12:07 -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 10:36 -0500, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 11:30 -0500, Art Alexion wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:34 -0500, Marcus Senna Borges de Barros > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > I using Evo 2.12.0 on Ubuntu Gutsy, and after I copied my email from > > > > > > previous versions to the personal folders, the filters only work > > > > > > when > > > > > > I select the messages (and also if the filter rule doesn't involve > > > > > > moving mail to a folder). No message error is given. > > > > > > > > > > > > Is there any way to find out what is happening? > > > > > > > > > > I've been told on this list that this is a known and ongoing problem. > > > > > > > > IMHO the most common reason for automatic filters not working is that > > > > more than one client is accessing the server mailbox concurrently, > > > > meaning that messages are not "new" and so are not filtered. See > > > > http://www.go-evolution.org/FAQ#Why_do_my_mail_filters_not_work.3F > > > > > > OK, it is rare, but sometimes possible that I am concurrently accessing > > > the account using > > > 1. evo 2.6 (Novell) on SLED 10.1 > > > 2. evo 2.12.1 on xubuntu gutsy > > > 3. MS Outlook 2000 SP-3 on XP SP-2. > > > > > > None the less, this should not be my problem because I have: > > > A. The same filters on all of the clients, and > > > B. All of the filters move messages to folders on the exchange > > > server. > > > > > > For example, I have an exchange folder called "evolution" where all > > > messages from this list are supposed to be diverted to when they arrive. > > > That filter is on all of the clients. > > > > > > So, no matter which client accesses the new message first, it should > > > still be diverted to the evolution folder and accessible to the other > > > clients with access to that server-based folder. > > > > No necessarily. Remember that Evo follows IMAP semantics (even for > > non-IMAP servers), i.e. it "moves" a message by copying and deleting, > > and "deletes" a message by marking it, so until the original folder is > > expunged there are two physical copies of the message on the server. > > OK, but aren't they marked deleted on the server, and therefore, not > "read" but unavailable to other clients? In fact that is the way it > works when I have Outlook running concurrently. Outlook applies the > filter, moves the message, and Evo only sees it in the destination > folder, not two copies. > > > > Furthermore, the effect of one IMAP client marking a message as deleted > > while another is looking at the same mailbox is not defined by the IMAP > > RFC. In my experience Evo uses "lazy synchronization" i.e. it won't > > recheck message state unless you change folders and then change back > > again. > > I can live with this, but it is not the problem nor its cause. > > > > > In other words, one's natural assumptions about what's happening are > > often wrong. > > True, and I don't profess to know what is actually happening. I only > know what is not happening -- Evo is not applying my filters to new mail > (it will apply them manually). > > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list Novell, Inc. Software for the Open Enterprise™ http://www.novell.com _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
