[MlMt] Cannot manually Apply Rules

[Randall Meadows]

On 20 Sep 2018, at 3:24, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 19 Sep 2018, at 21:36, Randall Meadows wrote:
>
>> NOW, however, when I have the INBOX selected in the left pane, the 
>> messages list in the right-top pane shows messages from a VARIETY of 
>> mailboxes, NOT just INBOX.  It appears that the messages I moved from 
>> the Spam mailbox back to INBOX *did* get filtered into their correct 
>> mailboxes - which I guess I can see happening, if the rules are 
>> executed on any messages that are placed into INBOX, but I would have 
>> thought that would only happen with received messages, not for 
>> manually-moved messages - but why are they still being listed when 
>> INBOX is selected in the mailbox list?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>
> Rules are applied whenever something enters a mailbox including when 
> moving the emails into the mailbox.
>
> The emails still being displayed in the mailbox sounds like a bug -- 
> possibly related to what I refer to as “sticky” messages. This is 
> needed, e.g., in the Unread mailbox when marking a message as read 
> (where most users would expect the email to stay in the mailbox until 
> leaving it -- even though it's no longer unread).
>
>> It actually appears that the messages in question are *duplicated* in 
>> the INBOX and their "real" mailbox (BTW, this is the Smart "Unread" 
>> mailbox I'm talking about here).
>
> That does look very strange. Does it persist if you relaunch MailMate?
>
> If it doesn't, can you reproduce the problem by, e.g., moving a single 
> message back into your Inbox?

A restart didn't help; it appeared the only thing that helped was 
deleting the duplicate messages.