From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757331AbYA1VAq (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:00:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752633AbYA1VAj (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:00:39 -0500 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:47908 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752553AbYA1VAi (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:00:38 -0500 Message-ID: <479E4201.8040500@oracle.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:58:41 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Jackson CC: michael-lists@free-electrons.com, rob@landley.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches References: <200801181120.03168.michael-lists@free-electrons.com> <20080118083415.07c37f2a.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20080128095245.f8306466.pj@sgi.com> <20080128081759.4efa8544.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20080128133254.f70d50c2.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20080128133254.f70d50c2.pj@sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 extremely out of date.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 And you are correct -- that FAQ is out of date.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