129084 - [RFE] Ability to store filter rules on IMAP server

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 78858

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas Swan]

I think it would be advantageous to save the mail filter rules for an account on
the IMAP server.   One possibility is to save the filters as .filters or .rules
in the root of the users IMAP directory.

This could be done in addendum to the existing filters system, by loading remote
rules and then overriding them with local rules, or other precedence.  It could
be as simple as loading the remote rules in addition to the local rules with no
replacement.

The reason I suggest this, is that I use Mozilla from several different
locations and utilize at least 5 different email accounts with fairly
complicated filtering rules on each account.  It would be ideal if I did not
have to copy and edit the rules.dat file each account folder on each machine and
try to synchronize these.

In Summary:
1. Store the rules.dat file in the remote server directory as .rules.dat or 
.filters (possibly .mozilla.rules.dat to prevent any file name conflicts)
2. Load the rules right after the mailbox listing has been completed and if the
.rules.dat file has been found.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

this all pre-supposes that we have access to the user's imap directory, which is
simply not true in the general case (I'm guessing you're using UW). If we were
to do this, we would probably do it using the IMAP protocol to create some sort
of hidden/unsubscribed folder with messages in it that contained the rules data.
But we're not going to do anything like this soon.

Comment 2

[Thomas Swan]

Perhaps that was a bad assumption on my part.  Yes, I use UW-IMAP.

The .file I was thinking of could very well be a folder.

Comment 3

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

This is really a roaming feature, and there are other bugs that cover roaming.

Comment 4

[kevin arnold]

This is a duplicate of bug 78858

Comment 5

[Dirk O. Brückner]

*** Bug 151797 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Garth Wallace]

Kevin is right, this is a dup of 78858. Marking as such.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78858 ***

Comment 7

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplicate

Comment 8

[Vincent Keunen]

Dan Mosedale said this bug was more about roaming and that other bugs relate to
roaming, but I could not find any (nor in the summaries nor in bodies)...  Can
someone point me to those?

Thanks