Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:58:41 -0800 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches |
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Paul Jackson wrote: > Randy wrote: >> Does Sylpheed IMAP do filtering for you? >> >> It does not according to the Sylpheed FAQ, but the FAQ is >> extremely out of date. > > You are correct that the Sylpheed FAQ, such as at: > > http://sylpheeddoc.sourceforge.net/en/faq/faq-1.html > > states: > > 1.8 Q08 Does Sylpheed have mail filtering? > A. Yes. You can find it in Configuration -> filtering tab. > Please note that filtering is not yet implemented for IMAP accounts. > > And you are correct -- that FAQ is out of date. It seems to be > dated 2002. > > To answer your question, yes filtering now works fine on IMAP folders > using Sylpheed. I make heavy use of it. I'm using Sylpheed version > 2.2.4 at the moment. > > === > > Be that as it may, whether Sylpheed IMAP folder filters worked or not, > I'd suggest that the Documentation/email-clients.txt file not engage > in evaluation of the general purpose feature sets of various email > clients, but rather confine itself to what matters to the kernel > mailing list, such as how to get patches formatted correctly.
Agreed. I'll modify it.
-- ~Randy
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