Hello Pete, Thank you for your answer.
I know there are reasons that filters should not run automatically, the points you made make all the sense, but there are some expections: Since I do select all on inbox and do apply filters, everything works, for me, its the a manual process that could be made on a cron job. Doing manually also contemplates the danger of a copy for example, I do not do copyies over folders, I use labels for that. When cailling automatically, you could specifiy the filters you want to run, a think you cannot do right now. A search folder would not work, i will not categorize my email, and I will keep my inbox cluttered, and for me that is essential to have, since I use my email on mobile and other clients, so having a clean inbox is a must. So if there is not a way to to this, I may look into other alternatives, if there is please send me your recomendations. Thank you so much for your reply! Regards, Alfredo Palhares On Fri, 2020-07-24 at 17:52 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > The objective of this filter is move old emails to a folder, but I > > want > > them to stay on inbox for a while, so I can read them without going > > through the folders, but evolution only processes emails with the > > "new" > > flag. > > So my solution right now is to select all messages and run apply > > filters. Altough this works its kinda tedious and I always keep > > forgetting to do this, so my Inbox gets cluttered real fast. > > > > So is there a way to invoke the filters automatically? > > No, filters can only be applied to new mail. I can think of lots of > reasons why filters shouldn't be periodically applied - like when a > filter says 'copy' you will end up with a copy of the email every > time > the filter is automatically run. Also if you filter on content, > every > single mail will have to be downloaded, which might be a problem for > large mailboxes. I know *you* don't do this in your filters, but it > has the potential to cause more problems than it solves. > > There are other options though. You can only show the last 5 days > messages in the folder - the messages are still there, but it can > declutter the folder. Or you could leave the messages where they are > and use a search folder to only show you the messages you want to see > (basically the inverse of your filter). > > P. > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > [email protected] > > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
