183158 - filters/views spontaneously change themselves (Status criteria reset)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Dan Meek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021122
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021122

I create filters to label mail in color by status.  For example, mail of status
"replied" get a filter to label it blue.  Later, I see that the filter has
changed, by itself, to label "read" mail as blue instead of "replied" mail.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create filter to label replied mail as blue
2. work on other things
3.  come back and see that the filter has changed to label read mail as blue
Actual Results:  
filter labels read mail as blue

Expected Results:  
filter should label replied mail as blue

theme happens to be classic

Comment 1

[Cavin Song]

Reassigning it to naving for filter problems.

Comment 2

[laurel]

I believe there's existing report -- status filters have never worked.  They
weren't applicable until we (recently) implemented manual/after-the-fact
filtering.  Since filters worked only on New/Unread messages previously, there
was no great reason to apply filter on status.  Now that we have manual
filtering in place, we have to revisit the state of filtering on status.

Will look for existing report(s).

Comment 3

[laurel]

*** Bug 186212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[laurel]

*** Bug 188166 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Samir Gehani]

Mail triage team: nsbeta1+/adt3

Comment 6

[Joe Infla]

*** Bug 193119 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Joe Infla]

*** Bug 194535 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Moritz Strübe]

There should be a way for finding this Bug searching for "mailviews". 
I would help solving this if anyone tells me where to search, because I'm not to
familiar with the Moz-Source, but quite interested is solving this.

Comment 9

[Moritz Strübe]

Might it be, that this bug has to do with bug #189890?? I'm afraid it'l take
quite a while for me to get used to the code.

Comment 10

[Joe Infla]

*** Bug 195286 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Harvey Savage]

Email filtering is, in the last few days, less than useless.  Each time I've
re-installed a current version, on 2003031408, the filters are somehow altered
by the new build and several of them are taken out of service.

That's not too bad considering filtering hasn't worked at all for about 3 days.
 I finally had to remove file msgFilesRules.dat, which in my case is a good
sized file, to filter all my legitimate mailboxes plus many filters to send spam
to the trash folder.

With the filter file I have been using for several months in its proper place
Mozilla would lockup just trying to download new email.

hrs
Harvey R. Savage

Comment 12

[Dan Meek]

Just wondering whether someone is working on fixing this one, so I can stick
with Mozilla and not install something else because I need mail filtering that
works.  Thanks.  I greatly appreciate all the volunteer effort that goes into
Mozilla, which is actually very stunning.

Comment 13

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

taking

Comment 14

[David :Bienvenu]

I looked at this, and was not able to reproduce the problem. Is it still
occurring with 1.4b/final builds?

Comment 15

[Dan Meek]

I do not use 1.4b.  I use 1.3.1 because I am in a "production" environment.  It
certainly happens in 1.3.1

Since there is no indication it has been fixed, I assume 1.4 still has it.

Comment 16

[David :Bienvenu]

well, I was not able to reproduce any problem like this in 1.4b - my status
filter hasn't changed in several days. This is either an indication that it has
been fixed, or that this problem isn't 100% reproducible.

Comment 17

[Mads Peter Bach]

I'm still seeing it in 1.4b.

My way to reproduce:
1. Create filter using status = read.
2. Quit Mozilla
3. Start Mozilla and inspect the filter you created. It now uses status =
replied instead of status = read.

This is on MacOS X. My filters only change when I quit Mozilla, and start it
again, not while I keep it running.

Comment 18

[David :Bienvenu]

ah, ok, now I see it, thx. It's very specific to "read", apparently. Shouldn't
be hard to fix. I don't think it's going to account for the other strange
behaviour described here, though.

Comment 19

[David :Bienvenu]

taking, fix coming up.

Comment 20

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

Comment 21

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

Comment on attachment 123281 [details] [diff] [review]
proposed fix

r/sr/a=sspitzer

very odd, we must never have tested this code.

Comment 22

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

I'm guessing there are bugs logged by nbaca that will be fixed by this.

Comment 23

[David :Bienvenu]

*** Bug 199464 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 24

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: new and forwarded switched

the ui for picking a status switched new and forwarded, from what I can see.

Comment 25

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

not switched, just wrong. This seems to work.

Comment 26

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

Comment on attachment 123304 [details] [diff] [review]
proposed fix

r/sr/a=sspitzer

Comment 27

[David :Bienvenu]

fix checked in (that last patch wasn't quite right - I changed the 105.... to
65536 so I think it's finally right).

Comment 28

[David :Bienvenu]

*** Bug 196787 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 29

[Dan Meek]

If it is now fixed, how do I get a version of Mozilla that includes the fix?

Comment 30

[David :Bienvenu]

download tomorrow's daily build (5/15/03), from www.mozilla.org, aka Nightly Builds.

Comment 31

[David Edmondson]

*** Bug 205813 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 32

[Ninoschka Baca]

Trunk build 2003-05-20: WinMe, Mac 10.1.5, Linux RH 8
Verified Fixed.

Views: Status|News, Status|Read, Status|Replied, Status Forward retained the
criteria.

Filters: Status|Replied, Label message as Blue retained the criteria.