131887 - RFE: Implement filters for outgoing mail

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 11039

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

It would be great to have filters for outgoing mail as well as incoming mail. I
send masses of email from certain accounts and this would be a very useful
feature for easing the location of sent mail, and speeding up the display of my
sent mail (i.e. if it is all in one folder it takes longer to display the folder). 

However, one thing to think about is that outgoing mail filtered to a folder
created by a user should still have the same options as if it was in the "Sent"
folder. For example, Eudora has a "send again" option for mail in the "Sent"
folder, but this breaks if you move the mail to another folder. Although Mozmail
doesn't yet have this feature, it may be desirable to implement features
specific to sent mail in the future. Perhaps there would need to be some way of
marking/recognizing mail as being sent mail, or perhaps outgoing mail should
only be allowed to be filtered to folders created with the type "Sent" (that in
itself would of course be new). 

Thanks for your great work guys. :-)

Comment 1

[Marc Loiselle]

A comment in bug 11039 recommends that you BCC yourself.  Then use an incoming
filter to save the message into the correct folder.

Comment 2

[Jerry Baker]

There's a reason people don't want to BCC: themselves on all outgoing mail. 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11039#c9

Marking duplicate of bug 11039

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11039 ***

Comment 3

[laurel]

verified as a duplicate