324276 - Have a <folder> detector for any folder, not just for junk

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181866

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Guy Kindler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Thunderbird does a very good job in detecting spam messages. I wonder if using the same algorithm will work for detecting "travel" related messages, or "mom" related messages, or any other folder I may have in my account. Then, instead of a junk status, there would be a "sugested file in" column, with a suggested folder to file the message. A single keystroke would file the message in the suggested folder.

The way I imagine it being implemented is that a right click on a folder will have an option to add it to the "learned folders" list, which will make TB try to guess which messages fit in it. The spam detection or similar algorithm will then be applied for each message in the viewed directroy and output a level of confidence as to which learned folders this message belongs to. If at least one learned folder passes a certain threshold, then the learned folder with the highest confidence will be suggested.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start TB
2. open a folder
3.

Actual Results:  
only filing suggestion which appears for messages is spam-folder filing

Expected Results:  
a filing suggestion should appear for messages which seem to belong to a learned folder. A single key combination should file such messages in the suggested folder.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181866 ***