Evolution's crazy habit with moving an e-mail to a folder !?

SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux i-ubux at synass.net
Thu Mar 13 23:43:52 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 07:04 +0800, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 17:53 -0700, Carl Spitzer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 20:55 +0800, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Study your filters carefully.  They do not run in serial but in
> > parallel.
> > So if a message fits two or more filters two or more actions or copies
> > of it will come to be.  I got into a circular problem like that once and
> > what I did was delete all filters and restudy the inbox.
> > 
> > BTW there are also outgoing filters so if you post to a message list
> > wherein your set to get your own messages back, keeps threads together,
> > then you can set a filter to delete that message after sending.  I do
> > this with all posts to yahoogroups.com and egroups.com
> > 
> > CWSIV
> 
> Hi Carl
> Thanks for your interesting feedback !
> My answer goes to you and the Ubuntu Users too !!
> 
> My complaints didn't go into the direction of how Evolution filters
> e-mails !
> The complaint goes to simple moving e-mails from INbox to their
> definitive folder locations !!!
> 
> Explanations & Sample:
> Without these ugly disturbing  "eS Pe A eM's more than 100 e-mails
> almost every day, 
> from private and ITC contacts, i.e. mailing lists like the one from
> Ubuntu. ;-)
> 
> Getting these e-mails I do it with 2 step:
> Private e-mails and ITC info and news come straigtaway to my INbox !
> All other accounts with high volumes do need manual PWD's to control
> their arriving !!
> After checking & reading some go stored in their final folders and the
> rest goes deleted !!!
> 
> Now it comes what I complain about:
> After all these checkings, readings all e-mails are in their places and
> the INbox is empty.
> ALL of these e-mails NOT deleted but moved to their final folder
> location are in TRASH too :-O
> 
> That's very ugly and makes control very difficult and more complicated
> than neccessary !!! ;-(((
> 
> 
> I am used to famous Lotus Notes:
> Moving e-mails directly into their respective folder location doesn't
> leave a spur in TRASH !!!
> Eeased and deleted e-mails ONLY are in TRASH !!!
> 
> That's the way I expected it !!
> 
> One more point comes up:
> Replying with Lotus Notes places the answer not only in SENT !
> It is also placed there, where one answers from !!
> 
> I answer to you and the Ubuntu Users from the INbox straightaway ...
> ... so I will have your incoming and my outgoing message in the
> INbox ...
> ... plus the one in SENT !!!
> 
> This solution is very cool and efficient:
> Knowing to whom I wrote I check directly the respective folder !
> Like this I do have the whole communication, incoming and outgoing in
> one spot !!
> Not like ARROW'ed mails showing that they are answered and one has to
> search further !!! ;-|
> 
> Searching for "Evolution's crazy habit ..." messages written to some
> recipients ...
> ... I check under SENT !!
> 
> Well, the application offers search assistance too but luckily I know
> what I am looking for and do need these application searches very
> rarely ! ;-)
> 
> 
> So, I better stop here ! 
> Please excuse me for my longwinded "Swiss German English" !!
> I hope you understand what I mean and wrote !!! ;-D
> 
> 
> Cheers, svobi


Even more worse:
With moving your mail from the INbox to my IT INbox and then moving to
Evolution's folder ...
... I have 3 entries of your message plus the one in the Evolution
folder !!!
Disappointing chaotic !!
;-(

Cheers, svobi





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