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

[Mike McMullin]

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 07:43 +0800, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> 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 !!
> ;-(

  Now that's odd. I've had Evo handling a few lists, sorting them into
their own folders, and never do I see the originals in my in-box.  It
must be a setting somewhere.