Re: kmail email filtering only works sometimes

[Xavier Brochard <xavier@alternatif.org>]

Le vendredi 10 octobre 2014, 21:53:30 Brad Alexander a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Volker Wysk <verteiler@volker-wysk.de>
> 
> wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 10. Oktober 2014, 08:10:05 schrieb Brad Alexander:
> > > I am using kmail (through kontact) for my work email, and everr since I
> > > upgraded to 4.14.1-1, mail filtering has been hit or miss. At times, you
> > > have to right click on a message and click "apply all filters", and it
> > 
> > will
> > 
> > > properly apply the filters, but most of the time, it does not. In prior
> > > versions, it would filter automatically.
> > > 
> > > Was there a change in kmail that broke this feature, or did something
> > > not
> > > get upgraded properly?
> > > 
> > > --b
> > 
> > I've head similar problems. If I remember right, it has been fixed by
> > deletion
> > (or moving out of the way) of the file
> > ~/.kde/share/config/akonadi_mailfilter_agentrc
> 
> Interesting. This didn't work for me. I moved the file out of the
> directory, stopped and restarted kontact, and created a single rule. When I
> applied it to a message that matched it, it did not mov ethe message as
> requested.
> 
> Anything else I could try? I'd really hate going to icedove or some other
> mua.


You should have restarted akonadi before.
One can either :
delete the file and logout
or close kmail, delete the file, open konsole and type 'akonadictl restart', 
then reopen kmail.

xavier