[sylpheed:37340] Re: Filter rules not working for accounts with a space in the name

Craig <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:09:17 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.mail.sylpheed.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:35:35 +0300 Anton Shepelev <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> For me, Filter rules do not work with accouns whose names contain
> a space.  For example, I had an account called "Insomnia 24/7".
> When tried to create a filter rule to move some messages to:
> 
>    #imap/Insomnia 24/7/INBOX
> 
> Sylpheed refused to save it, saying the target folder did not
> exist. It worked after renamed the account to "Insomnia" .

I use Linux, which dislikes spaces in names, so I avoid those on the
entire file system.

In your case I would have made the directory  #imap/Insomnia.24/7/inbox


Craig