Re: [Evolution] Multiple filtering nukes messages

["Ujwal S. Sathyam" <ujwal netbrowser com>]

On Wed, 2001-10-17 at 11:46, Matt Nelson wrote:
> In evo +cvs.2001.10.15.08.08 I am seeing a dangerous filtering
> behavior.  Try the following:
>
> - set up a folder, such as "Ximian Mailing Lists" and a filter to move
> incoming messages into it.
>
> - after a few messages accumulate in the new folder, select it so that
> you see the message pane containing the filtered messages.
>
> - press CTL-a, CTL-y to filter those messages again.
>
> *poof* all the messages disappear.  They don't even show up in the
> trash.
>
> It looks to me like the filtering mechanism first copies the messages to
> their destination, then deletes them.  In this case, they get copied on
> top of themselves, then deleted.
>
> Note: all of the above is with IMAP folders.  This may have happened in
> earlier evo's, but I hadn't noticed it till now.
>     

This happened to me too!! I thought I did something stupid. Of course, it is possible for two people to have done something stupid. I lost all my mails yesterday in my IMAP INBOX after I did Ctrl-A and Ctrl-Y.

Ujwal