173673 - The "filterFolderDeniedLocked" message (user-unfriendly, appears too often, unpredictable)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Dave Evans]

The "filterFolderDeniedLocked" message ("The messages could not be filtered to
folder '%S' because another operation is in progress") appears all too often,
and doesn't appear (to an un-savvy user like me) to be triggered by anything in
particular.  Thus I don't know what I could do differently to make it go away
(apart from not use filters).

When it happened to me just now, I had ~190 messages in my POP3 box, and it
generated that message for *each e-mail* for probably the first 40 messages. 
(Then presumably the lock became available, because the message went away).

So, my request(s):

- if possible, can the message just not be shown at all (silently wait until the
lock is available, or whatever)

- otherwise, if we take it as read that the message *must* be shown, then

     - can it only be shown "once per download", rather than for each message?

     - can it be reworded to explain that "some messages in your 'XYZ-Inbox'
folder were not filtered".

Comment 1

[Dave Evans]

*** Bug 173675 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Dave Evans]

I haven't seen this error message for several weeks, so I assume it's now fixed.