[kdepim-users] Yet Another Troubled KMail2 Migration Successful (Maybe) (For Now)

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Tuesday, July 09, 2013 11:52:02 AM Marc Deop wrote:
> On Monday 08 July 2013 15:53:39 Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > On Monday, July 08, 2013 11:42:57 PM Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > > > On Monday, July 08, 2013 12:29:56 PM Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
> > > >> On Sunday, July 07, 2013 11:21:44 PM Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > >> 
> > > >> I have been logging and it seems only my spam-related rules
> > > >> (filtering
> > > >> on headers put there by spam-scanners upstream) seem to be invoked
> > > >> automatically. The only thing they share in common is having
> > > >> "spam"
> > > >> in the rule title. Filtering manually with Ctrl-J works, though
> > > >> I've
> > > >> had cases of lost messages (restored after an akonadi/kmail
> > > >> restart)
> > > >> and lost message bodies (not restored after a restart).
> > > > 
> > > > I think I have found the problem. A number of my filters only apply
> > > > to
> > > > certain accounts, so I went into the Advanced tab and seeing they
> > > > could
> > > > be applied to specific accounts I used that facility.
> > > > 
> > > > It seems to not work.
> > > > 
> > > > As a test I reset some filters to apply to all accounts and those
> > > > filters work, while the others do not.
> > > > 
> > > > So, this seems to be a bug, or I don't understand how this feature
> > > > is
> > > > supposed to be used.
> > > 
> > > That is an interesting finding and something I didn't think that
> > > could be the source of the problem. Thanks for reporting this, I
> > > will do some investigation (once I have some time for it...)
> > 
> > On a hunch, I narrowed it down further. Both the POP account and the
> > Local Folders account have to be selected. I tried it with a couple
> > filters and that seemed to work, and then I changed all my other
> > filters and that fixed them too.
> 
> I'm sorry, I got lost in so many emails about this topic.
> 
> Could you please clarify what exactly your problem was and what was what
> you did in order to fix/workaround the bug?
> 
> Thanks in advance

My problem was that only some of my filters were working. Turns out I need 
to set them to act on both a POP account and the Local Folders account (in 
the Advanced tab of filter setup). I was only selecting a POP account.

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