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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    [Bug 73758] Filter rules do not act on incoming messages in IMAP
From:       Andreas Gungl <andreas.gungl () osp-dd ! de>
Date:       2004-07-28 13:33:50
Message-ID: 20040728133350.17173.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From andreas.gungl osp-dd de  2004-07-28 15:33 -------
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 14:51, Johannes wrote:
> I strongly comply with comment #6. As said there, why don't apply
> filters automatically to emails on a IMAP account to move them to a local
> folder to make them available offline, which would make "disconnected
> IMAP" somehow obsolete. The affected mails could still reside on the
> server, but in addition, I get a local copy to the destination folder of
> my filter.

If you think you can't live without that feature, why don't you come up with 
a patch?
It was said that there is a lack of man power to implement this 
functionality (comment #9) and I really don't understand why people can't 
accept that reason.


IMHO you don't understand the philosophy behind disconnected IMAP. DIMAP is 
like a local snapshot of your messages on your IMAP server. You can copy or 
move messages between the "virtual" IMAP folders. As soon as you sync 
again, your changes will be propagated to the server.

Example: You initially sync your DIMAP account, then you leave the office. 
In the train there you read those two messages. You decide to move one into 
the trash (actually located on the IMAP server) and to move the other from 
"your projects main" folder to the subfolder "your projects change 
requests". After you have arrived in the subsidary office you sync your 
DIMAP account again. The new positions of these two messages (trash and 
project subfolder) are sent to the server. Now you can use any online IMAP 
client to see the messages at their new postion in the folders you moved 
them into.

DIMAP is not at all about filtering but usually working offline and sync 
with the server from time to time.

In contradiction to the scenario described above, if you move the messages 
to local folders you can't see them on the server any longer. You have them 
on your single machine while with DIMAP you only have a copy of the message 
(and ever have it on the server too).
As a question remains why using IMAP when following this workflow.
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