193786 - IMAP filters fail for unopened deep folders

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[hanasaki]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030215
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030215

IMAP sub-folders are dynamically discovered when a parent folder is opened. 
Thus, the filter cannot fine a folder to move an INBOX msg to if that folder has
not yet been viewed in this session.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a folder 3+ levels down in IMAP
2. make a mail filter to move a msg to that folder
3. bounce the mozilla client
4. send yourself an email that will match the filter

Comment 1

[Joe Infla]

Is this a duplicate of bug 183429?
Reporter,  do you know what sort of IMAP server is being used?  This process
works for me with an exchange 2000 server unless the nested folder is not
subscribed.  See also bug 194297, which implicates Cyrus IMAP.

Comment 2

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

mass re-assign.

Comment 3

[hanasaki]

Seems to be related to "bug 183429" but most likely not a duplicate.
- hanasaki - reporter

Comment 4

[Derek R. Price]

Looks like a duplicate of bug 183429 to me.  Also, I have the same problem with
Courier-IMAPD 3.0.3, not Cyrus IMAP.

Of course, I haven't subscribed the folders, but I really wouldn't think I
should have to for the mail filters to work.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

do you still see this problem?

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

[Derek Price]

I stopped using Thunderbird's mail filters 6 months or so ago, but had not experienced this problem in some time before that.

My reason for switching was unrelated - I have dozens of mail filters and was being forced to recreate them all every time I had to reinstall Thunderbird because of a hard disk crash or whatever.  By the fourth time this happened, I decided to filter my mail using procmail on the server side.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks Derek. xref bug 183429 comment 14

reporter's address is dead. So resolving this based on comment 7 and my own WFM.