10416 - mac: Filters: date criteria not working

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect, P3)

Description

[laurel]

Using july22 m9 builds on all platforms

I can't get a filter using date criteria to work.

I tried both POP3 and IMAP.
I tried all of the possiblilities is, isn't, is before, is after.
I tried AND and OR.

Comment 1

[laurel]

In my rules.dat I used date format in the condition line like this, which is the
way 4.x does it:

condition=" OR (date,is after,20-Jul-1999)"

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

Date is almost never used as a search criteria, but if we ever get filtering
after the fact, it might be useful.

Comment 3

[laurel]

So does that mean we're thinking of cutting 'date' as a criteria option?

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

No, it's just a hint as to the relative priority of this bug when push comes to
shove.

Comment 5

[lchiang]

(target milestone is M11 or M12 - add to mail beta tracking bug)

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

*** Bug 16880 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[David :Bienvenu]

fixed in nsMsgSearchTerm.cpp

Comment 8

[laurel]

Basics ok using 1999-11-05-08m11 commercial on linux 6.0 and NT 4.0
Having trouble with mac, final assessment later.

Comment 9

[laurel]

I can't get this to work on Mac.

Comment 10

[David :Bienvenu]

changing summary to reflect macitude of problem.

Comment 11

[David :Bienvenu]

this works for me on the mac - the filters were definitely firing, and moving
messages to another folder.

Comment 12

[laurel]

Using nov11m11 commercial build on mac OS 8.5.1 I'm still not able to get this
to work. I've tried IMAP and POP (POP new profile, migrating still has something
going on which I'll investigate).

If I use a filter where condition = AND (date,isn't,12-Nov-1999) I'm seeing new
messages sent today (nov12 and my machine is set to current date) get filtered
to my destination folder.  If I change the rule to condition = AND
(date,is,12-Nov-1999), I don't see new messages from today moved.  This says to
me the mac isn't evaluating the date on messages correctly.

Comment 13

[laurel]

Furthermore, I tried using (date,is before,13-Nov-1999) and today's new messages
stayed in the Inbox and were not moved to destination folder.  If I used
(date,is after,10-Nov-1999) the message was correctly moved.  Something is
wacko.

Comment 14

[David :Bienvenu]

I tried your original filter : OR (date,is after,20-Jul-1999) and that worked
fine. I didn't try the other flavors. I'm told that it doesn't matter if it's
AND or OR, but I didn't write the code so I can't swear to it.

Comment 15

[laurel]

I found that the AND or OR didn't make a difference in the instances I've been
trying today.

Comment 16

[laurel]

This is still not working on the mac using dec07 m12 commercial build.
Double-checked and is indeed still working on linux and NT with dec07 commercial
build.

Reopening.

Comment 17

[David :Bienvenu]

moving to m15 - date filters are just not very common.

Comment 18

[David :Bienvenu]

moving to m16

Comment 19

[selmer (gone)]

Cleanup work, marking M18.

Comment 20

[David :Bienvenu]

adding nsbeta3 keyword

Comment 21

[David :Bienvenu]

Using today's build, on the mac, I set up an imap filter that moved messages
with Date is "July 25, 2000" and they worked. So this is working for me.

Comment 22

[laurel]

I'm tired of mac today, so will try to verify this tomorrow... but so you put in 
the date in the format "July 25, 2000" instead of "25-Jul-2000" ? The latter is 
how 4.x writes to the file. 
Will play with it more tomorrow.

Comment 23

[laurel]

I'm reopening... I've seen this work only once using hand edit of file with this
format: 30-Sep-2000. Stops working after the first time.  Other type filters
(subject contains) keep working.  I think date filters for Mac are messed up.

Related bugs: 
   Still seeing date in rules.dat change -- 46468
   Still no 6.0 date filter ui working -- 40380

I don't think anyone cares about date filters anyway for this release.
In any event, I'm reopening this.

Comment 24

[laurel]

The above comments were for testing done with PR3 commercial branch build, mac
OS 9.0.  2000-09-29-11 mn6 commercial branch.

Comment 25

[David :Bienvenu]

clearing nsbeta3 keyword - you're certainly right that no one cares about date
filters.

Comment 26

[Oliver Klee]

Milestone 0.8 has been released. We should either resolve this bug or update its
milestone.

Comment 27

[timeless]

clearly no one cares=future, helpwanted

Comment 28

[David :Bienvenu]

-> navin, who's doing a fine job with the filters code!

Comment 29

[Gene]

yea, when "Age in Days" is selected in any of the filters, it won't allow 
the "OK"-ing of the filter dialog window.

using Mozilla 1.1

Comment 30

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

mass re-assign.

Comment 31

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

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 32

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #29)
> yea, when "Age in Days" is selected in any of the filters, it won't allow 
> the "OK"-ing of the filter dialog window.
> 
> using Mozilla 1.1

surely this is no longer true (?)

Comment 33

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Jay, do you see this?  Comment 12, 13

Comment 34

[Jay Moran (jaym/lazvon)]

Works For Me in version 3.0a2pre (2008071003).

I can use filters to match a specific date, before a date, or after a date. I can use filters with an AND to match a subject or an author. Everything looks great to me.

Comment 35

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

=> WFM then. thanks Jay