Bug 64235

Summary:	Creating a filter automatically sets the destination folder to "draft" and this may result in confusion if one forgets it and presses OK
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Vincenzo Ciancia <vincenzo_ml>
Component:	filtering	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	dominik.tritscher, kollix
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	triaged
Version:	1.10.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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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.