Phil, I had the same problem when expunge of a folder would cause an error. I copied the folder somewhere, renamed the original and then moved the copy back to the original. evolution would update the corresponding filter rule, to now contain the name <folder>.old, which I did not want. It might be of help to know that the rules are in an xml-file in ~/.evolution/mail/filters.xml, which I can edit and the running evolution would pick up the changes right away. Maybe you can just make a copy of filters.xml before you run your procedure and then restore the copy on top of the falsely updated file. Hope that helps.
Am Freitag, den 28.05.2010, 11:01 -0400 schrieb Philippe LeCavalier: > Hi All, > > I use message filters (not search folders) to sort incoming mail on an > IMAP server in the wild. Several times over the past few years I've > made changes (knowingly and unknowingly) to Evo or my system in > general, which resulted in Evo loosing the path of the destination > folder for ALL my rules. Every time this happens it all starts with me > noticing Evo is running something along the lines of "Updating Message > filters" and is usually followed by the feeling of despair and a loud > sigh on my part. That because it never works. The general rule stays > in tact(that's nice) but the path to the destination folder is lost > -blanked. In this particular case, I understand that Evo had to erase > the path altogether because I had to re-subscribe to all my folder > (possibly another issue for another posting...) so if Evo can't see > the folder it understandably should remove the seemingly invalid path. > The inherent problem with that process is that once I re-subscribe to > all my folders and it runs "Updating message filters" again it has no > record of said previously set path. > > 1) > I don't know if my expectations are realistic or even remotely > possible but could I not ask (post a bug) to have Evo remember paths > before clearing them in the likelihood that the user might need said > path? > > 2) > To be perfectly clear, I can live with the "knowingly" but the > "unknowingly" is different. Today this happened for no apparent > reason. Can someone out there help me determine the cause please and > pretty please? Hint: it problably starts with the reason why I was > unsubscribed to everything but the root, my Inbox. > > Hoestly, I'm not certain what is need info-wise to troubleshoot this > so here's some info and please ask away for more as required. > > -IMAP hosted on WAN, Courier I believe but I could confirmand get > exact versioning if it matters > -Debian SID/testing > -Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 > -XFCE4 4.6.1.3 > -Evo-data-server 2.28.3.1-1, Evo-common 2.28.3-1 & Evo 2.28.3-1+b1 > -Sqlite3.6.23.1-2 & libsqlite3.6.23.1-2 > > > Cheers, > Phil > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- thomas _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
