146249 - Enhancement - Allow mail labels to be assigned via message filters (multiple actions)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 13145

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Alastair Smith]

Mail labels and filters are invaluable but in combination IMHO they would be
awesome.

In Message filters add the ability to perform this action:

Label message as Important, Work, Personal etc

Thanks

shipdoc

Comment 1

[laurel]

It is already implemented.  Go to filters ui, then pull down the action menu and
see there is already a Label the Message action choice...

Marking this worksforme.

Comment 2

[laurel]

marking verified worksforme.

Comment 3

[Alastair Smith]

I was as clear as I should have been.

I agree that both Label the Message and Move to Folder are both present in the
same Message Filter drop down menu and the choices are therefore mutually exclusive.

The enhancement I was suggesting would enable both actions to be performed
independently.

In addition to the general drop down menu there would be an additional select
Label type Menu.
i.e a Filter could move the message to Business folder and highlight it in red
to  label as important.

Thanks

shipdoc

Comment 4

[Alastair Smith]

Just came across this terminology "Incorporation Filters" and "Display Filters".
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/grendel/filters.html from May 1998 - Jamie Zawinski.

So to restate my idea the filters would combine two behaviours - one seelecting
location etc. the other the display.

shipdoc

Comment 5

[laurel]

Well, you can do both things independently -- currently it takes two filters,
one with a label action and one with a filter.  A message which matches both
filters would be labeled first then moved, providing that you have the label
action filter first in the list ( we evaluate messages against filters in the
order listed in the filter list dialog until it hits a match which causes it to
be moved/deleted).

If you're asking for multiple actions in one filter, we have a bug for that --
bug 13145.  Marking duplicate of that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13145 ***

Comment 6

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplicate