198273 - Inadequate search capabilities in Mail Filters

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 19442

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Stephen R. Besch]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

Although the new spam filter is nice, being able to generate filters that could
capture whole classes of items would be a really nice enhancement.  The addition
of a regex engine to the e-mail filters could accomplish this.  One could then
identify messages with obviously flawed origination addresses and/or subject
lines. For example, many spam emails arrive with the sending address made up of
a permutation of the addressee's email address, a string of random digits, or
some other identifiable signature.  The subject line frequently contains similar
content.  I have noticed that the spam filter almost never catches many of these
messages, even after significant training.  Filtering them with a regex
expressions would be trivial.  Filtering them with the current filtering
capabilities is nearly impossible. While this capability has been alluded to in
other enhancement requests, I could not find a formal request for the feature
anywhere in Bugzilla.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Sander]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19442 ***