[imapfilter-devel] INBOX confusion

[Ezsra McDonald]

Greetings imapfilter gurus,

I have been using the basic config for imapfilter for a couple years.
I have a problem that I need to work out. I was hoping you could help.
Please keep in mind that I am not a programmer.

When I run filters on my inbox some messages get filtered incorrectly.
I think I have traced the problem to messages that get delivered while
a filter is being processed. If the message arraves at a point after
which it would have been filtered correctly it will get picked up by
my "junk" filter.

The question is, how can I get a "snapshot" of the messages in the
inbox at the time of execution and apply all filters only to this
snapshot of messages?

I don't see any examples anywhere of this.

What I have done in the past was move all my msgs to a ztmp folder and
process them from there. The problem is that now I have a PDA and our
sysadmin only allows pop from outside of our network. This means all
of my interesting messages must remain in the inbox rather than some
other folder of my choice.

Any ideas?

Your assistance is appreciated.

--Ezsra