1547107 - Message filter sending to folder with ampersand (&) in name, adds hyphen

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Filters, defect)

Description

[duc]

Attachment: FilterIssues.txt

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

Steps to reproduce:

I apply a filter to incoming messages sending to a folder named "Accounting & Taxes" (without quotes, of course) The filter creates a new folder named "Accounting &- Taxes", adding the extra hyphen after & in the folder name, and moves messages there.

Actual results:

Here is a text excerpt from the filter log, with certain items anonymized:

[3/9/2019, 5:37:14 PM] Applied filter "Accounting & Taxes" to message from Outside User <[e-mail]> - Company Taxes at 3/9/2019, 4:19:09 PM moved message id = [e-mail] to imap://[e-mail]/INBOX/Corporate/Accounting &- Taxes

Expected results:

Messages should have been filtered into folder named "Accounting & Taxes" instead of creating a new folder with an added hyphen after the ampersand (&).

Comment 1

[duc]

For another folder named, "Shipping & Tracking", it adds a hyphen, and also does not show any activity in the Filter Log.

Comment 2

[:aceman]

So you mean the folder "Accounting & Taxes" already exists, you make it a target for the Move to action in a filter. When that filter matches a message that message is moved to a new folder created at the spot, named "Accounting &- Taxes" ?
The hyphen does not only exist in the filter log text, but really a new (duplicate) folder is created on the server (you pasted an IMAP case) ?

Comment 3

[duc]

Yes. Perfect repeat of my situation.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

TCW, can you reproduce comment 2?
I think this may be a duplicate

Comment 5

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #4)

TCW, can you reproduce comment 2?
I think this may be a duplicate

Not on 81.0b3. Works as normal.

1. I created a folder called Accounting & Taxes
2. I created a new Subject-based filter called "Accounting & Taxes test" that moves the message to the "Accounting & Taxes" (see image)
3. Sent myself a message with the title "Accounting & Taxes test" and body as simply test
4. Arrived and moved to the "Accounting & Taxes" folder without issue

Comment 6

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

Attachment: filter.png

Comment 7

[Arthur K. (he/him)]

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