IMAP with KMail 4.14.10: Filter other folders than Inbox

[Jerry Lapham]

On Saturday, March 11, 2017 8:46:17 PM EST Ingo Klöcker wrote:

> On Friday 10 March 2017 21:17:52 Quazgar wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > is there a way to filter other IMAP folders than the inbox?
> 
> No. KMail only filters mail in the inbox. The reasoning for this is that
> mails in other folders (obviously) must already have been filtered by
> somebody else than KMail (which also is the case in your scenario). A
> related reason for this design decision is that we wanted to minimize
> the risk for filter loops.
> 
> > This is my scenario:
> > In order to keep the clutter at a minimum when checking mails with my
> > provider's web interface, I have a server-side filter that puts mails
> > from the most high-volume mailing lists into a separate folder
> > ("Inbox/lists/"). Now when I start KMail on my main machine I would
> > like all filters to be applied to that folder as well, in order to
> > move the mails to their respective local folders.

Why not create one or more separate email accounts on your ISP or on public 
email providers such as gmail, yahoo, etc. for your high-volume mailing lists?

	-Jerry
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