The order of filters is very important. They are applied to the original message in sequence, like a recipe.
If your first filter has a
When you move a message to another folder, "moving" actually means appending a copy of the message to the destination folder and marking the original message for deletion. So any subsequent filter rules will be applied to the original message that is now marked for deletion. Therefore moving a message should usually appear last in a sequence of filter rules.
To check the rules and their order of an existing filter, review its actions in the
Another thing you have to keep in mind is that filters depend on the "new" flag that is set on the server when a particular email message is initially fetched from the server. If you use another email client aside from Evolution, your filters may not work automatically.
If it is still unclear why filters do not work as expected, you can enable logging filter actions.
Close Evolution.
Open the
Run the command
Run the command
Start Evolution.
Fetch mail to apply filters.
Open the file
Note that you can disable filter logging again by using the command
You can also use the