Bug 279087

Summary:	Filters are applied to unread messages
Product:	[Applications] kmail2	Reporter:	Albert Astals Cid <aacid>
Component:	filtering	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	awendt, kde, montel, prozac
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Albert Astals Cid 2011-08-01 20:53:14 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.0) 
OS:                Linux

As per FilterManager::Private::slotInitialItemsFetched filters are applied to unread messages, this makes no sense, filters should be applied either to received messages or to the current message if Ctrl+J is applied.

Moving the messages i just moved to a different folder just because it is unread is unacceptable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Have an unread message
Move it to a different folder than the one your filters specify
Receive mails
See how your message magically goes back to the old folder


Expected Results:  
Messages i received days ago should not be modified by filters unless Ctrl+J is applied onto them

Comment 1 Ronny Multrus 2011-10-10 09:33:00 UTC

Same here in 4.7.2. I didn't test the moving, but anytime I open KMail, it reapplies the filters to all unread messages in my inbox, which makes it unusable for 30 min as it runs 400 messags thru spamassassin!

As you said, filters should only be applied to incoming messages. But I also noticed that, when downloading new mails, all of them first go to the inbox and are further processed and moved only afterwards. Maybe this causes the problem.

Comment 2 eric 2011-11-30 00:23:20 UTC

I see this behaviour too in kde-4.7.3.

Akonadi/Kmail can not recognize incoming messages.
Because of this it is not possible to filter incoming messages or to give these messages a different colour.

To workaround the problem of filtering messages when Kmail is started:
I've made a filter to move unread messages older than 30 days out of the inbox. This way my inbox is reduced from 4000 to 300 messages. It still takes 2 minutes to filter the messages at start though :(

Comment 3 Ronny Multrus 2011-11-30 08:30:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Akonadi/Kmail can not recognize incoming messages.
> Because of this it is not possible to filter incoming messages or to give these
> messages a different colour.

Isn't recognizing new mails an essential feature of any e-mail application?

The UI seems inconsistent, as (in 4.7.2( any filter has the option of being applied to incoming messages...

Comment 4 Laurent Montel 2012-02-16 16:10:55 UTC

All is fixed in 4.8.0

Comment 5 Ronny Multrus 2012-02-20 11:05:56 UTC

Thanks for fixing this.