Well, the problem went away by itself. The hard drive crashed on the laptop, so I had to reload everything, and now the filters work the same on both the destkop & laptop.
The filters were all keyword based, no external scripts or anything. Weird, we'll probably never know why it did that. Thanks. Jean On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 08:18, guenther wrote: > > Interesting thought, but no, the user name is the same and home > > directory is the same on both machines. I'm the one using them, after > > all.... > > > > On the desktop, evo is in /home/jean/evolution. The laptop has a > > /home/jean directory, and /home/jean/evolution from the desktop is > > mounted in /home/jean/evolution on the laptop. > > Yep, should work. > > > > I have a couple of filters that move suspected spam to a folder called > > 'Junk'. On the desktop, they work as they should, but on the laptop, > > every piece of new mail gets moved to 'Junk'. I suppose I could add a > > color as it moves it, and find out which rule is triggering the move > > to Junk, that might explain something. > > What are those filters exactly? > > As you mount the ~/evolution/ folder only(?), filters that rely on > external scripts may be broken. That is in particular 1) checking the > return value of a non-existent script and 2) a script that stores its > own databases in different locations than the ~/evolution/ folder. > > Any Bayes filtering very likely will use the latter approach. So > differing databases on your work machine and the laptop may be the > culprit then. > > However, just a shot in the dark. HTH... > > ...guenther > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
