180196 - [rfe] sent mail filters (filter / fcc when sending)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 11039

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

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[rfe] sent mail filters (filter / fcc when sending)

I want to be able to set it up so when sending, I can filter (based on recipient
or subject) what the fcc option is set to.

I logged a bug recently about how if I reply to a message in folder x, the fcc
should go to folder x.  this is a little different, I guess, but related.

Comment 1

[laurel]

I think there's an older bug report or two about this, will collect them toward
this one.

Comment 2

[Tuomo Tikkanen]

At least bugs listed below seem to deal the same problem. Because I am not
familiar with the bugzilla procedures I am not sure if they should be marked as
duplicates to this enhancement bug or just be collected as dependencies here.

- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11039

- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177040

- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180683

- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74134

- http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65113

I would propose that all these bugs are collected to this
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180196 bug somehow and later all the
similar bug raports would be marked as duplicate of the bug. I'd like to see all
these FCC related enhancements be solved simultaneusly.

From my point of view the very best solution would be that FCC header would be
available always as option to "To:", "Cc:", "Bcc:", "Follow-up-to:",
"Reply-to:", and "Newsgroup:" fields available currently in compose window
header partition. When user then has set the autosave options (enhanced "Send
copy to" with filtering) header list would contain the appropriate FCC: headers.
This way it would be easy to have extra FCC: rules "on the fly" for special
cases that do not match to predefined filter rules (one could add new FCC:
headers, remove or modify existing automatically generated FCC: headers).

Comment 3

[albiz_1999]

I would it too

Comment 4

[:aceman]

My workaround for this is to add a rule into each filter.
The filter then contains the rules 
if sender="xxx" OR recipient="xxx" then move to folder xxx
The is no difference on filter function when incoming mail is filtered. But I
can then run all the filters manually on the Sent folder, and the messages are
distributed accordingly. Of course, it is not instant at mail sending but it
kinda works. In batches.

Hardware and OS=All

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I believe this bug is a direct duplicate of bug 11039 (both bugs opened by 
Seth).  (That bug has many more votes and CC's, fwiw, probably because it's 
earlier, so it would be natural to dupe this to that rather than the opposite.)

That bug is filed under the Backend, rather than Filters; I'm not sure which is 
more appropriate, so it might be better to keep this open just to catch the 
bugsearches on Filters.  At any rate, people voting for this one I think are 
better advised to vote for 11039 instead.

Regarding the related bugs listed in comment 2:  none of those is a filter issue 
so much as a request to better control FCC.  Many of the actions currently in 
the filters would also be applicable to outgoing mail, particularly if the 
to-be-implemented "FCC to" action is not selected.

Comment 6

[Howard Chu]

Marking dependency on bug 294632. If we run filters on a folder automatically
whenever messages are stored in the folder, then defining a set of filters on
your Sent folder (or wherever your FCC is set) will be sufficient to provide
this feature.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Marking dependency on bug 294632. If we run filters on a folder automatically
> whenever messages are stored in the folder, then defining a set of filters on
> your Sent folder (or wherever your FCC is set) will be sufficient to provide
> this feature.

Since you've already marked that bug as a duplicate of a bug that isn't really 
about folder-specific filters, that's not quite right.

I believe the correct resolution of this bug involves triggering a filter on 
sent mail, not triggering a filter on a message copied into a folder.

Comment 8

[Jens Bannmann]

I agree with comment 5 - this is really a dupe of bug 11039. As Mike wrote: that bug is older, so this one is resolved.

(In reply to comment #6)
> Marking dependency on bug 294632. If we run filters on a folder automatically
> whenever messages are stored in the folder, then defining a set of filters on
> your Sent folder (or wherever your FCC is set) will be sufficient to provide
> this feature.

This is no longer entirely true - bug 301084 added the ability to file replies in the original folder _instead_ of the "Sent" folder. If that option is active, your suggestion will not work.