215349 - Mail filters don't work if Thunderbird is checking mail on another account

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 168648

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Dalai]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.1 (20030723)

I have three mail accounts, which are set to check for mail when Thunderbird 
loads.  I have a filter set up to move all messages into one inbox (as I don't 
like having to check 3 folders for my mail!).  However, it often pops up an 
error message, something along the lines of "Filter operation could not be 
completed as another operation is in progress".  I forget the exact phrase, I 
can't repeat it now as I have no mail arriving. ;)

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Set up some mail filters across multiple accounts
2.  Have them all check for mail
3.  Receive some mail like the popular chap you are

Actual Results:  
See details above.

Expected Results:  
THUNDERBIRD, should filter the mails still, even though it is checking for 
other mail.  Perhaps it should wait until the mail checks are all done before 
running the filters?

Comment 1

[Matt Bridges]

I am having the same problem with multiple accounts, but I think the source of
the problem is slightly different than originally reported.  I think it's a more
general problem with the "move to folder" action of filters -- it doesn't work
when the destination folder is a subfolder of a different account.  Two things
lead me to believe this:

-When I set up thunderbird to only check mail on one of the accounts, the
problem persists.  (doesn't move mail from inbox of one account to subfolder of
another)

-When I set the destination folder of the filter to be a subfolder of the
originating account, the filter does work fine, no matter how many accounts are
being checked.

Note that the filter does work when I use the "run now" option from the message
filters dialog.

Comment 2

[Chris Campbell]

I also encountered this problem. I have two IMAP accounts set up. I created a filter to move messages 
from one account into a subfolder of the other account. It works when I run it manually. But when 
applying the filter to new messages as they come in, I get an error message saying:

"The messages could not be filtered to folder 'Foo' because another operation is in progress."

(Foo is the subfolder on account 2 I want to move the messages matching account 1's filter into.)

This was in Thunderbird on Mac OS X, so this bug applies to all hardware and all operating systems.

Comment 3

[Tom Mraz]

I'm seeing this also on Linux.
However I've seen the error message only if I had enabled to check the mailbox
immediately after the start. But the filters doesn't work anyway.

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

not a 1.0 stopper

Comment 5

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Same problem as Bug 168648?

Comment 6

[Doug Wright]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Same problem as Bug 168648?

I agree

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 168648 ***