Thunderbird Not Running Filters on Incoming POP

Cyber Source 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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