All, I strayed, for a while, into the land of GNOME and Ximian Evolution, but now I'm back with KDE3 and KMail 1.4 (on SuSE 8.0) at my employer, where the mail server is MS Exchange or IMAP. When my filters failed to apply themselves automatically to incoming mail, I found a FAQ that sez: "Why aren't my filters applied to incoming messages of IMAP accounts? Because KMail currently doesn't support this. You should use server-side filtering (ask your admin for how to install filters on the server and in which format), since IMAP is all about managing your emails on the server. Unfortunately, although there exists a mail filter language (Sieve, defined in RFC3028), there is no standardized access protocol for installing or editing server-side Sieve scripts. If such a protocol becomes available in the future, KMail will most probaly include support for it." Of course, my filters worked correctly when I was using Ximian Evolution. Given how pervasive Exchange Server and Outlook are in the corporate environment, I hafta wonder why: a) Ximian thought it important to address Exchange and IMAP, while apparently the Kompany doesn't, so much; b) Ximian figured out how to support IMAP and local filtering (after all, most of us have rather stringent limits on the size of our server-side mailboxes), but the Kompany is unable. Is there more to the issue than meets the eye? For that matter, why should it even matter what server my mail comes from, when LOCAL filters are being applied? It can't be all THAT hard to watch the local inbox and automatically apply filters, can it? Even if the filters were applied on a timed basis (every X minutes) to my KMail inbox, that would be much more convenient than having to regularly use "Edit > Select All Messages" and then "Messages > Apply Filters". Can somebody explain the constraints, please? These guys usually have good reasons for what they do -- or don't do -- and I'd like to understand the issue. Thanks, /kevin