1438379 - provide filter operator "contains any" to support multiple search terms in a single rule

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1465076

(Thunderbird :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[btxtiger]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I am using Email Filters


Actual results:

I have "tiny large" filter lists, containing about 60 email addresses. The filter should move them in to a specific folder. The scrolling in the list is very slow, laggy, confusing. But thats a minor issue.

There are three big issues:
1. Why can't I have a textarea field, where I can paste all email addresses in comma separated format. It is not necessary to define the (equal) condition for each mail address. 

2. If I want the filter to match (email1 OR email2 OR email3) AND (email.age > 3 days)
It's just not possible with the current filter system. I have to define an own filter for each address:
Filter 1: match email1 AND email.age > 3
Filter 2: match email2 AND email.age > 3
Filter 3: match email3 AND email.age > 3
...
Filter 300: match email300 AND email.age > 3

This is just NOT A WORKFLOW.

3. Export filters AND import filters
(nice to have: sync filters; or being able to sync the config file via googledrive/dropbox)

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

#2 (boolean) and #3 (export/import) are covered in existing bug reports. 

So I am changing this to cover #1. The workaround is to import a group of email addresses into an address book whose purpose is to use the search operator "is in my address book"