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

[Mario Vukelic]

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.

What? That's not true at all. What happens is that the filters are run
in sequence, but just because one filter applies to a message, that does
not mean that other filters don't. The mail practically "dribbles" down
through all the filters, and whenever a condition is true, the defined
action is taken.

If this is not the desired behavior, one must set a "Stop Processing"
action. 

Simple Example:

Filter 1: if message body contains "that", move to folder "that"
Filter 2: if message body contains "email", move to folder "email"

Now if a message comes in that contains the words "that email", filter 1
will apply and move it to "that", and then filter 2 will apply and move
it to "email".

If you don't want 2 to happen, you need to end the conditions in filter
1 with "Stop Processing". This also makes filtering faster