[sylpheed:34547] Re: Mail filtering when opening a folder

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On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:05:40 +0100
Gabriele Sanna <frank.sanna at libero.it> wrote:

> > > The following problem is bugging me since long time:
> > > I have an IMAP account and several filtering rules, which apply to
> > > mails belonging to this account. The thing that annoys me is that
> > > sylpheed only applies the filters to new messages, when I
> > > explicitly use the "receive messages" function.
> > > However, if I just open the IMAP folder, the new messages are not
> > > filtered, but stay in the root folder. I have to apply the
> > > filtering rule "manually" to this folder, to get the new messages
> > > filtered.
> > > 
> > > In my opinion, a better behaviour would be to apply the filtering
> > > rules to new messages in a folder, whenever this folder is opened.
> > 
> > Anybody?
> 
> I agree with you.

I would like to bring this to attention again, because this is really extra
annoying, IMHO. 
Are there any other opinions on this issue?