199274 - Quickly adding any header from message when using "create filter from message"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 11036

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[neil]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)
Build Identifier: 

this is an enhancement request to the select From header and right click which 
creates a filter. 

IMHO, the easiest ever filter creation is implemented by Forte Agent (also Free 
agent). 
1 The user right clicks on a message
2 select add filter
3 window pops up with prefilled criterion (sender address)
 (ALSO you get a 'paste field' button) 
5 click 'paste field'
6 pops up window with a scrolling list of each mail header from which user can 
select and paste into filter criteria (which supports reg exp too)

It makes creation of a new filter a 3 click process and very very quick. 

Suggest someone grabs a copy of Agent (www.forteinc.com) and has a look.

 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

dupe of bug 140591 or whatever -> INVALID

reporter, please read the bug reporting guideline before filing a bug
report. Test against a newer bug and then give us the build ID (your
build ID is that of MSIE). And descriptive bug summary please

Comment 2

[neil]

Sorry I did read the bug reporting guidelines. There's little guidance on * new
feature requests *. I am NOT reporting an existing bug. How is a build ID
relevant to a new feature ?

Maybe opening sentence a touch ambiguous. Try this: 'this is an *enhancement
request* to the 'select From header and right click which creates a filter'
functionality.

Comment 3

[Sander]

Reopening. Daniel, this is a valid RFE, requesting for the currently existing
feature to be extended, and has nothing to do with the feature once having had a
bug or whatever. :)
As such it might still be a dupe (of bug 181988 in this case), except that this
bug proposes a way to do this that might actually be useful, and asks for "any"
mail haders, instead of an extended limited subset.

Comment 4

[Sander]

and confirming.

Comment 5

[Daniel Wang]

sorry, didn't pay attention to "*any* header"

Comment 6

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

mass re-assign.

Comment 7

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** Bug 217984 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Frankie]

*** Bug 181988 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Bruno 'Aqualon' Escherl]

*** Bug 309522 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 333762 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The just-added dupe suggested a mechanism for this that I think is superior to the "'paste header' button" suggested in the original report:

> the 'header name' combo should let me pick from all the headers of the
> message I am creating a rule from, and the value should default to the
> current value of whatever header I pick.

Comment 12

[(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 13

[Armin Fuerst]

I just want to repeat my suggestion from Bug 333762, since it has been marked as a duplicate of this one long time ago:
When adding filters, I suggest changing default from
"Match any of the following" to "Match all of the following", because this could create less false positives: I'm getting many mail-server-errors from different customers I don't need to read for 99.9%. But I have to keep all of them just in case. Since they all have the same subject, I filter by subject and sender. If I forget to change from "Match any" to "Match all", messages from my customers get mixed up.