1683025 - Message filter - Reply-to doesn't work when run selected filter on folder

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Barry Abel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.107 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1. Put email in Inbox with "To" field containing the address of an email account that Thunderbird is receiving mail for, and with the "Reply-to" field containing [e-mail]. (I got it there by emailing it to myself.)
2. In the message filters for the recpient's email account, create the following filter:
   Apply filter when: Manually Run, and Getting New Mail (Filter before Junk Classification)
   Match all of the following: Reply-to is [e-mail].
   Move message to [select a folder]
3. Back in the main Message Filter dialog box, make sure that the filter just created is selected, and that Inbox is selected after "Run selected filter(s) on":
4. Click on the "Run Now" button - nothing happens.
5. Edit the test message as new, giving it a new subject to distinguish it, then send it.
6. When the message arrives, it goes to the correct folder.

Actual results:

Nothing.

Expected results:

The message should go to the folder selected in the filter.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

John, is this something you can reproduce?

Comment 2

[Danny Colin [:sdk]]

I got bit by that bug today and the filter log doesn't return anything. Anything else I could do to help debugging this issue further?

Comment 3

[Phoenix]

I can confirm that there is an issue with Reply-To header filtering, but in my case it doesn't work in automatic mode, but works fine upon manual run. How I can help with finding the root cause/getting this fixed?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Danny Colin, are you still seeing this issue in newer versions?

Comment 5

[Dan Pernokis]

Just an idea to test:
The STR suggests creating the filter and immediately running it. Does it help -- or at least act differently -- if you create the filter and then exit the filter dialogue before going back in to run it? I'm thinking perhaps the filter isn't/wasn't actually recorded and can't be seen (executed) until the exit (close dialogue) happens.

Comment 6

[Danny Colin [:sdk]]

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

Danny Colin, are you still seeing this issue in newer versions?

I moved my filters to my email provider because this way changes are applied on all my machines so I haven't tested on newer TB versions.

Comment 7

[aslam karachiwala]

TB 115.16.0esr (64-bit)
Kubuntu 22.04

"Reply-to" filters get ignored.