1821974 - use quickfilter to show only messages without tag

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 683809

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[brendel oliver]

Steps to reproduce:

Used the quick filter button for tags, I wanted to actually see only messages which are un-tagged.

Actual results:

It does not seem to be possible to show only untagged messages. Richt-clicking on the different tags actually negates this tag (that is does only show the other tags), which is nice, but I haven't found a way to not show tagged emails at all. When I go through messages to tag them, it's useful not to be distracted by already tagged emails.

Expected results:

Estending from the existing logic of negating a tag quickfilter by right-clicking on it, one would expect that right-clicking on the "tag" button in the quick filter would negate it and show only untagged messages. Similarly this way, only read messages could be shown (to tag them :-), or only unfollowed messages. Thanks for considering this improvement.

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1084928 ?

Comment 2

[brendel oliver]

thanks Andre Klapper for this link. Howver :

• creating a filter means that then I would need to work in the filter-folder. And there are many problems (and bugs in bugzilla) linked to this, such as when detaching attachments, double emails are created.
• I have FiltaQuilla, but haven't found in their manual anything about tags_empty. I have tried it, did not work.