187151 - newsgroup filters disappear/lost/removed between mozilla sessions

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Dave Bodenstab]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021227
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021227

While reading a newsgroup I click on Tools/Message Filters.  I create a
simple filter, ie. name=kill1, "Sender contains Vandemann".  Actions are
"mark as read" and "ignore thread".  The filter is created and I can click
Tools/Run Filters on Selected Folder.   The filter does work.

However, after quitting mozilla with Ctl-Q and restarting, the filters
are being deleted/lost/removed.  Not all the time... but after creating
about three or four, invariably one or more will disappear.

I haven't seen a pattern yet to describe this more clearly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start mozilla Mail & Newsgroups
2.Read news from a newserver
3.Select a newsgroup and create several simple filters:
  name=kill1 "Sender contains <whatever>"  Actions "mark as read" and "ignore
  thread"
  Note: pick some authors that post frequently.
  Do this for several news groups.
4.Quit mozilla with ^Q
5.Restart mozilla Mail & Newsgrpoups, open the account for the news server
  and read those groups for which the filters were created.
6.Check to see that *all* the previously created filters are still present.

Actual Results:  
Some of the filters had disappeared.

Expected Results:  
Kept all the filters and run them when the appropriate newsgroup was opened.

Comment 1

[laurel]

If you're switching folders/newsgroups in between adding multiple filters before
confirming filter UI, you may be hitting a scenario or two mentioned in existing
bug 140075...

Comment 2

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

mass re-assign.

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Confirmed on Thunderbird 2003-10-08 nightly.

When I created a filter for news server and terminated Thunderbird, Thunderbird
saved filter to <News_Server_Name>.dat file under News directry.
However, [tools]/[message filters] after restart showed nothing.
When I closed filter definition window and terminated Thunderbird,
<News_Server_Name>.dat was cleared(filter definition entries were deleted).

Mail filter location was already changed to <Server_Name>\msgFilterRules.dat in
Mail diorectry( by 1.3? ,1.4? ).
Filter UI for News is not changed, I guess, although filter file name/location
was changed.

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Following UNCOMFIRMED bugs seems to be DUPE of this bug.
  Bug 199311 newsgroup filters lose content
  Bug 199413 New filters does not appear in Filter Name list
  Bug 201357 mail/news filter definition is corrupted

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 199311 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 201357 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** Bug 199413 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Scott MacGregor]

I'll have to review this and the duplicate bugs, but some of the issues might be
fixed as soon as we have server wide filter support.

see bug #19403

Comment 9

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Bug 237470 has a well-defined scenario for reproducing a similar symptom to this 
bug.  Dave Bodenstab, if your situation matches the case described there, please 
dupe this bug to that one.

Comment 10

[(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 11

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 12

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

is this still seen when using a recent version?

Comment 13

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE due to lack of response to previous question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.