176654 - Support for addressbook lists in filter rules

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 176653

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Xavi Miró]

It would be very useful to be able to include addressbook lists in the filter
rules. This enhancement would avoid having to create long filter rules where
each member of a list has to be included individually in a "contains" rule.

For example, one would be able to select a rule like this:

"the <To or CC> <contains someone from the list> friends_list".

 The list would be evaluated at filter time, not at design time (i.e. the _name_
of the list would be stored in the rule and the rule would be evaluated in the
moment the filter is applied). This way, if a list changes its members, the
filter will continue to work as expected without changes.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176653 ***

Comment 2

[laurel]

verified as a duplicate.