178397 - [news filters] use HEAD command to allow for more powerful news filters

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

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[news filters] use HEAD command to allow for more powerful news filters

with the head command, we can get all the headers, instead of just the ones we
get with XOVER.

david suggest that we only do HEAD when there were filters that needed headers
we couldn't get from XOVER.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 236802 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 295050 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

*** Bug 317123 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Cesar Eduardo Barros]

Related bug: bug 16913

Comment 5

[tzincirci]

Can we have a new option accessible via config editor to implement this?
e.g. when that option is set to true TB uses XOVER, otherwise it uses HEAD and presents the rich message filtering capability based on full & custom headers?

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 7

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Fixed by the checking of bug 16913.