1749217 - Filters not working in Fedora

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Filters, defect)

Description

[John Mellor]

Steps to reproduce:

Create a filter for to: address containing aol.com, with actions to mark as read, mark as junk and move to gmail junk folder.

Actual results:

Trigger never works on Fedora, but does on Windows-10.

Expected results:

Simple trigger should actually work as expected.

Comment 1

[John Mellor]

This is a probable security problem, as crackers do not get filtered, leading directly to malicious payload delivery. Priority should therefore be very high.

Comment 2

[Andre Klapper]

Has this been discussed first in a support forum, to make sure this is not a configuration issue? Please provide a screenshot of the filter configuration.

Comment 3

[John Mellor]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2022-01-10 18-43-50.png

Screenshot of non-working filter supplied.
Platform is one of three normal installs of Fedora 35 Workstation. Thunderbird is slightly reconfigured not to download all emails, but keep it on the provider imap host.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Did you intend to filter FROM contains aol.com?
For support, please refer to https://support.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird

Comment 5

[John Mellor]

re: Did you intend to filter FROM contains aol.com?
Yes. Gmail sends a lot of mail to people with somewhat-matching names, and unfortunately mine is common and gets a lot of misaddressed mail as a result of Google's poor decisions. At least 3/4 of it is spam or malicious payload, so I want to just block anything to aol.com addresses.

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

My point was, the filter is on To, not FROM.
If there's a problem, you will look at the filter log (find it in the preferences)