On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 12:46, Jens Lautenbacher wrote: > On Fri, 2001-10-26 at 00:55, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > That's because IMAP only allows a single folder to be selected at a > > time, thus if you are reading mail in "My Folder", how is evo supposed > > to filter mail in INBOX? It can't. > > Why can evo notice that there is new mail in INBOX then at all? Without > looking at it? If it can notice this, than it can also (temporarily) > switch over to INBOX, do the filtering, and switch back to "My Folder". >
Because when you hit Send & Receive, it doesn't actually open the INBOX, it just asks how many unread messages it has - and does this for *all* of the folders on your server except for the folder you are currently in. If you ever get a chance to read RFC2060 you'll understand. > > If you want filtering to happen as new mail arrives, then you'll have to > > do server-side filtering. > > I would like to use sieve, but then I think evo should automatically use > sieve for storing it's filter rules or at least there should be some UI > for it. Server side filtering is of course the best option in every > respect. Evolution will eventually support sieve, but seeing as how hardly any imap implementations actually support sieve, I don't see it as something important to have asap. Jeff -- If they want the monkey love, they've gotta love the monkey. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
