message filter does not set label

[grouch]

Binary package hint: evolution

I'm using Evolution 2.22.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.04

I have several pop3 accounts and set up message filters to, among other things, automatically set labels on incoming messages. It doesn't work. Other filter action are taken (set status, move to folder, play sound etc.) but the message label remains unset.

See also thus thread on ubuntuforums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=785437

Looks like someone else has the same problem with IMAP.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue seems similar to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537904

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you set the label before or after moving?

[grouch (grouch)]

I was setting label after moving when I had this problem. I have now
changed the order of the filter actions such that the label is set
before moving. Now everything seems to work fine.

Thank you so much for asking me this question!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've let a comment on the upstream bug to tell them that the behaviour was confusing for users

[NoOp (glgxg)]

This same problem occurs even without moving messages. I have a filter set up for a gmane newsgroup:
gmane.comp.openoffice.questions
With a filter set to filter on a 'Delivered-To' header which contains 'moderator'. The action is to:

Assign Color: Red
Set Status: Important

When I fetch new messages for the newsgroup I see messages that match the filter criteria. However, the filters are not applied unless I first select the individual message, and then use Message|Apply Filters or Ctrl-Y. Only then does the filter work.

I have even tried selecting all of the message headers, the bottom status will show 'Filtering selected messages', but the filter is not applied - and is only applied if I select an individual message as above.

Evolution 2.22.3.1
Hardy 8.04 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 5 15:00:25 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
Fully updated.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Upstream bug has been marked as duplicate of bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=573120

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

is this still an issue?

[NoOp (glgxg)]

On 06/09/2010 10:36 AM, Omer Akram wrote:
> is this still an issue?
>
> ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Incomplete
>

I'll need to restore the Evolution settings/filter to test as I stopped
using Evolution sometime back.

[NoOp (glgxg)]

On 06/09/2010 04:16 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 06/09/2010 10:36 AM, Omer Akram wrote:
>> is this still an issue?
>>
>> ** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
>> Status: Triaged => Incomplete
>>
>
> I'll need to restore the Evolution settings/filter to test as I stopped
> using Evolution sometime back.
>

Still not working on Evolution 2.28.3 - lucid 2.6.32-22-generic.
Move filters work, label not applied at all now.

If I right-click on the message subject and select 'Label' I can see
that the proper label is checked/ticked (in this case 'Important - red'
but the color is not applied unless I apply to the individual msg per my
comment #5.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Can you please provide a few precise steps so that I could try to reproduce this bug with evolution 2.30 and if its there I could try to re-open the upstream bug. Thanks

[Jörg Frings-Fürst (jff-de)]

bug from 2008 - version not longer supported
change status to invalid