Applying filters to IMAP-inboxed automatically (in Kmail)?

[Derek Broughton]

Simon Rönnqvist wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 November 2005 19:30, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Simon Rönnqvist wrote:
> 
>   Well, actually I'm having a problem with the News reader functionality
>   on my
> Kubuntu Breezy PowerPC.
> 
> It says:
> Cannot load part for News.
> Library files for "libknodepart.la" not found in paths.

Odd.  libknodepart.1a is part of the knode package, which is a 'depends' of
kontact.  It should be there...
 
> This doesn't disturb me very much (yet), so I haven't tried to solve it
> (yet)... but in case anybody has a solution I'm surely interested. :-)
> (Sorry for the OT. :-)

Hey, it's my fault - I went there :-)

>> Yes, use "Disconnected IMAP" as your Account type.  It means you end up
>> with copies of all the messages on your local system, but it applies the
>> filters automatically.  It's still a bit of a hack, because it's fairly
>> common that I need to resynchronize the folders, but it's a lot simpler
>> than the above method (though gmane is easier :-)).
> 
>   Well, this is exactly what I needed... Thanks!
> Also since I'm using a PowerBook it's probably a good idea, so that all
> the mails stay with me on the road. One strange thing though is that one
> is unable to change an account from IMAP to Disconnected IMAP... so
> deleting and creating a new account is the only way... kind of clumsy...
> :-) But let's not complain... Disconnected IMAP saved my day! ;-)

Since it's pretty easy to refresh dIMAP from the IMAP source, it really
should be easy enough to create a dIMAP account from an IMAP one, so I'd
agree, but it's not like it's something you have to do every day.
-- 
derek