148430 - Mail filters should support regular expressions

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 19442

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[H. Paul Hammann]

Filters with multiple entrys that are set to match any entry only match the
first entry.  I have encountered this bug on FreeBSD (a few versions ago, but I
don't have that machine anymore) and Windows XP.


As an example I have a filter for our ideas list.  The entry is:
--------------------------------------------
Match any of the following

Subject     begins with      [ideas]
Subject     begins with      fw: [ideas]
Subject     begins with      re: [ideas]

Move to folder ideas
---------------------------------------------

When mail matching the subject "[ideas]" comes in it is correctly filtered to my
ideas folder.  However, when mail come in that matches either of the other two
rules, it lands in my inbox.

Comment 1

[laurel]

Worksforme with june4 branch build, win98.
Are you sure the beginning of the subject matched the filter conditions? For
instance, if you forward through our client, we use [Fwd: -- so the condition
for begins with fwd: wouldn't match.  Begins with is a bit more stringent than
contains, of course.

Comment 2

[H. Paul Hammann]

Ah, I think I see the problem.  At some point in the past, this filtering was
case insensitive and worked for my set of filters, which were all lower case. 
Now, however, the filters are case sensitive and my filters are missing
capitalized Re:, Fw:, etc.

Case sensitivity is a fine thing, but this is going to make my already large
filter list huge!  Each filter has to have re:, RE:, Re:, fw:, Fw:, FW:  I guess
I'll change this bug to a feature request asking for regular expression support
in mail filters.

Comment 3

[Nicolás Lichtmaier]

So it's a dupe of bug 19442 =).


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19442 ***

Comment 4

[laurel]

marking verified as a duplicate