Bug 103426

Summary:	more flexible filtering: move to folder with computed name (for ifile-like classifiers)
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	Gareth McCaughan <gmccaughan>
Component:	filtering	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bjoern, luigi.toscano
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	FreeBSD Ports
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Gareth McCaughan 2005-04-07 15:20:41 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    FreeBSD Ports

KMail has a nice filtering system, which works well for many
common tasks. However, one thing its filters simply can't do
(so far as I can currently see) is to copy or move a message
into a folder whose name isn't known at filter-creation time.

This makes it impossible, or at least extremely awkward,
to use a general mail-classifying program such as "ifile"
to categorize incoming messages into a large number of categories
and file them into folders accordingly.

What would be needed for this is the ability to run an
external program and use its output to choose a folder;
or (given that KMail already has the ability to transform
messages by piping them through external programs) maybe
the ability to extract a folder name from a message header.

I suppose it would be possible to get something akin to this
by using virtual folders (named searches), but that seems
like a workaround rather than a solution.

Comment 1 Gareth McCaughan 2006-10-31 18:46:25 UTC

Another thing this would allow: a filter, run only when the user
explicitly requests it, that moves messages to folders whose names
are based on their dates for archival.

Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 07:52:05 UTC

Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.

Comment 3 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:42:07 UTC

Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.