[Kde-pim] filtering

[Andreas Gungl]

Am Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2011 schrieb Thomas Olsen:
> On Wednesday 19 October 2011 23:02 Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I would like to do something about kmail2 filtering - I want to fix some
> > bugs.
> 
> I've started a thread on kdepim-users about another potential bug:
> 
> http://lists.kde.org/?t=131946146600001&r=1&w=2

I'm not subscribed to that list, however I might provide some information 
which may help the developers.

For me, filtering in KMail2 (KDE 4.7.x) works in the Inbox. I haven't tried 
other folders, as I have a sieve script on the IMAP server for the most 
important rules. Only some often changing rules are still used for filtering in 
KMail2.
Some things don't work as expected:

1) If I have quite some 100 messages in the Inbox (e.g. after the weekend), 
filtering starts when KMail2  (Kontact actually) is started. It works through 
the messages and filters them away. If I switch to the Inbox while filtering is 
still at work, sometimes messages (perhaps new ones seen for the first time) 
are no longer touched by the filtering process. They remain forever in the 
Inbox. Manual filtering of course moves them away.

2) The filters are set up to mark the messages as read. That never worked in 
KMail2. At least the move to other folders works, so I'm used to mark all msgs 
read in those target folder from time to time. It's annoying, though.

BTW, a comment which is OT: Filtering is sooo slow! I hadn't started KMail for 
a week because I've been away. Filtering could work on the msg headers only, 
but it processes only ~5 messages per second. During 10 seconds, both 
Thunderbird and KMail1 were able to filter all messages with much less CPU load 
and disk activity.

Best regards,
Andreas
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