[imp] Several problems with IMP 4.0-CVS (HEAD) (Filters, trash, etc.)
Marcus I. Ryan
marcus@riboflavin.net
Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:48:25 -0600
*Kneels and bows before your wonderfulness*
Thanks!!!!!!!
Quoting Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:
> Zitat von "Marcus I. Ryan" <marcus@riboflavin.net>:
>
> > (2) Filters have an unexpected behavior. It could probably be
> solved
> > by being able to lock a given filter to a specific folder, but I'm
> not
> > sure what other complications that introduces.
> >
> > The problem is that I have a rule to takes all email sent to
> given
> > mailing lists into given folders. That's great when I'm in INBOX.
>
> > Unfortunately this has caused to problems:
> >
> > (2.1) I have two rules - one that moves messages sent to
> > freebsd-questions into its own folder, and one that moves
> anything
> > else with freebsd in the to line to a different folder. If I'm in
> the
> > FreeBSD-Questions folder and my filters apply, it first moves the
> > message from FreeBSD-Questions to FreeBSD-Questions, then moves
> the
> > message from FreeBSD-Questions to FreeBSD-INBOX. In other words,
> I
> > would expect the system to apply filters on a given message until
> it
> > reaches a rule it matches, and then not try to apply any more
> filters
> > to that message in the same run; it should hit FreeBSD-Questions
> rule
> > and stop.
> >
> > (2.2) If you have a rule to move a message to another folder, and
> have
> > filter_on_refresh set, DO NOT GO TO THE TRASH! I had
> accidentally
> > deleted a message I wanted to retrieve. I went to trash and hit
> sort
> > by date. I had over 10,000 messages in my trash folder
> (apparently
> > problem 1 may not be deleting my messages but that's another
> story).
> > When I went to sort by date it re-applied all my filters and moved
> all
> > but about 15/10000 messages back out to the other folders.
>
> These both are fixed now.
>
> Jan.
>
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