Thunderbird Not Running Filters on Incoming POP
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peter at cybersource.us
Wed Dec 8 22:36:13 UTC 2004
what is in this .forward file and where should it sit?
Simon Windsor wrote:
> Hi
>
> After many years using Netscape Mail, Kmail, Outlook, Evolution and
> now Thundebird I came to my senses 5 years ago and put all my filters
> into a .forward file. No matter what mail client I use, it all
> filtered correctly, and consistantly.
>
> Simon
>
> Andrew Choens wrote:
>
>> I really do want to use Thunderbird. It has a kind of fun feel to
>> it. But, I have one problem that has to get cleared up first. As
>> everyone recieving this email knows, this is a high volume list. I
>> have a filter to move all of the incoming mail over to a folder
>> called Fedora. The filter works fine, when I manually run the
>> filters, but it does NOT run when new mail is downloaded from my pop
>> account. I had this with the 0.8 installed from the CD's and I'm
>> still experiencing it with the 0.9 rpm I downloaded from Fresh RPMS.
>> Out of curiousity, I downloaded a binary from mozilla, and got the
>> same problem. So, what's wrong with my set-up? Why won't the
>> filters run on the incoming mail?
>>
>> If I can resolve this, I'll switch to Thunderbird, otherwise I guess
>> I'm stuck with Evolution.
>>
>
>
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