On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 04:36, Not Zed wrote: > I use evolution filters to manage my mail, rather than vfolders, and > although they work find, they seem clumsy to work with.
Agreed, once a set of rules is set up they're an invaluable tool. But if something changes in the user's situation (for lack of a better word) editing the rules can be a real PITA. > I only have two types of filters > - a whitelist/blacklist of individuals which get moved to a given > folder > - list related filters which get moved to a given folder I have some rules set up to test for forged (SPAM) messages as well. [...] > But if i need to change the rule later, or modify it, i have to go to > the filter editor, search through the almost randomly named filters > there and open it up to edit it. Not sure what you mean with randomly named filters? You can edit the name of a rule when you edit it, I use this to name all my rules so I can group them by these names. > If I setup a new whitelist entry, the problem becomes even worse, I > have to cut and paste the address across or type it in. There's no > way to just add an address to it. I thought a solution would be to > have a wizard instead to drive the "create filter/vfolder from rule" > menu items so you could be asked questions like this, e.g. "add to > existing rule/create new rule". This is probably still a reasonable > idea (especially since the 'create filter/vfolder from x' menu is too > big). Perhaps there's a more easy way to do this: In the 'if' part of the rule add a button after "sender" "is" that opens the "Select contact from Addressbook" window where the user can select contacts to add to the rule. I see two poosibilities when the user selects multiple contacts: - multiple "sender is ..." rules are created - a single "sender is in ..." rule is created containing some sort of regex containing all the contacts > But wouldn't it be nice if: > - you could define rules 'on the folder'. So you define your rules on > the folder, its trivial to then find the filter rules for that folder > later, and it has implicit actions of 'move to this folder/stop > processing'. Just use a context menu on the folder to get to the > rules for this folder. This would be nice! > - you could drag and drop addresses onto a mail folder, it then adds > that address to your whitelist rules. The same for dropping addresses > onto a vfolder. How do you drag and drop addresses? Do you mean dragging contacts from the contacts window? Or do you mean dragging messages from that contact? [...] > You would still need the ordering interface, and you would still need > other actions, so this would just be a layering ontop of the existing > stuff, but it would make management easier. And while we're rethinking the rules-engine, perhaps conditional rules can be considered again? :) IF criteria 1 AND criteria 2 OR criteria 3 THEN action TIA Bram -- # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux User #349737 # # SuSE Linux 8.2 (i586) kernel 2.4.20-4GB i686 256MB RAM # # 9:45am up 48 days 13:23, 4 users, load average: 0.38, 0.24, 0.13 # _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
