Bug 64235 - Creating a filter automatically sets the destination folder to "draft" and this may result in confusion if one forgets it and presses OK
Summary: Creating a filter automatically sets the destination folder to "draft" and th...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kmail
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: filtering (show other bugs)
Version: 1.10.1
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Keywords: triaged
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Reported: 2003-09-14 02:21 UTC by Vincenzo Ciancia
Modified: 2009-08-01 20:50 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Vincenzo Ciancia 2003-09-14 02:21:43 UTC 
Version:           1.5.3 (using KDE 3.1.3)
Installed from:     (testing/unstable)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.1 20030722 (Debian prerelease)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.20-ck7

If I create a filter, the draft folder is automatically selected as a destination. I forgot to change that when creating a couple of filter. I frankly could no longer understand what was happening. I found, into draft, messages by other and unknown people! :)

The simplest solution would be to leave that field empty and warn the user if he presses OK. Computers should not take decisions in place of the users, should they?
Comment 1 Andreas Gungl 2003-10-26 20:41:26 UTC 
When you select the file into folder as action, then it should be the normal flow to specify the target folder afterwards. If you forget to change that setting, then it's no bug real that KMail doesn't complain. Therefore I change your report to "wishlist".
Comment 2 Marc Mutz 2005-06-01 18:56:24 UTC 
No, I implemented it like that out of lazyness. The original reporter is right: it's a bug, minor, but certainly no wishlist item.
Comment 3 Philip Rodrigues 2006-10-29 12:08:05 UTC 
Behaviour still as described in 3.5.5
Comment 4 Martin Koller 2009-08-01 20:50:18 UTC 
In kmail/KDE4 you get a field which says "please select a folder", so there is no default folder for the action "move/copy into folder" - closing.