Evolution only filters "new" messages, ie - ones that are marked with \Recent. Likely you are getting new mails that are NOT marked with \Recent.
IMAP client-side filtering simply cannot be 100% reliable. It's unfortunate, but true. You should be using server-side filtering if you want reliable IMAP filtering. Jeff On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 17:35, Alfred A. Lorber wrote: > I'm using Evolution 1.2.1 with Redhat Linux 7.3 and my inbox is on an > IMAP server. I've set up a few filters for my incoming messages and > checked "Apply filters to new messages in INBOX on this server". > Unfortunately, they filters don't always execute when I get mail. They > seem to work for a while (a few messages or so) when I first start > evolution, but then stop. Whenever I edit the filters, exiting > evolution, doing a "killev" and restarting seems to be the only way to > get things going again. To track what is going on, I wrote a python > script that does the filtering by subject for me and writes its status > to a log file. I execute the script by selecting the "Pipe Message to > Shell Command" in the filter editor. By looking at the log file, I know > the filters are not being fired every time I get mail. If I select mail > and do a "Apply Filters" the filters get executed just fine. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks > -Alfred > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
