Navin Gupta wrote:

> For IMAP, if you blow away the INBOX.msf file, all the headers will be 
> downloaded again, so all the filters should apply. The behavior will 
> be just like manual execution of filters on INBOX. I would let 
> bienvenu comment on label
> issue because he implemented the feature. 

I tried it, and naving is 100% correct:  if you remove you INBOX.msf 
file, the filters apply again.  I have a filter to label certain types 
of messages, and they did get labeled.  Sorry for the mis-information.

-Seth

>>
>> Off the top of my head, I think we only apply filters to new mail. 
>> removing the summary file doesn't change the message state on the 
>> server.  So when you downloaded headers to rebuild the summary file, 
>> the filter rules are only applied to new messages.
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