218609 - Manually marked junk messages should be moveable to arbitrary folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214782

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[JoSH Lehan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

Messages manually marked as Junk should be moveable to an arbitrary folder.

Currently, this is only possible for messages *automatically* marked as Junk.

In the Tools/Junk Mail Controls/Handling options, an option exists for the user
to choose a folder for placement of automatically junked messages.
However, it is not possible to choose a folder for placement of manually junked
messages.

There is an option "Move them to the Junk folder", but this only allows the
option of movement to the special hardcoded Junk folder, not an arbitrary folder
of the user's choice.  It seems strange and inconsistent that the ability to
designate a folder of the user's choice would be possible for
automatically-flagged junk messages, but not for manually-flagged junk messages.

I like to test how good the filters are for classifying junk mail, so I have a
different folder for junk mail that I've manually flagged.  It is not the same
as the folder for junk mail that is automatically flagged by Mozilla/Thunderbird.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Tools/Junk Mail Controls.
2. Attempt to choose an arbitrary folder of your choice for "When I manually
mark messages as Junk".
3. You can't do it!  Note that you *can* choose a folder for "Move incoming
messages determined to be junk mail", but not for "When I manually mark messages
as Junk".

Actual Results:  
See above.

Expected Results:  
See above.

This is for Thunderbird 0.2 20030901 (the downloadable version, not the CVS
version) on Windows 2000.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This bug reports the same behavior as bug 214782 (suite MailNews).  And in fact, 
Thunderbird's behavior is the same as the suite -- manually marking a message as 
Junk moves it to the Junk folder specified in the Junk Mail Controls dialog, not 
necessarily to the hardcoded "Junk" folder.  As reported, this bug is Invalid.

Reporter may prefer one of the following:

Bug 205883 comment 4 suggests better wording on the JMC dialog (within the 
context of a better UI generally for the Junk Controls).  This could easily be 
done within TB.

Bug 229847 requests the capability to select some *other* arbitrary folder for 
manual marking vs. that for automatic detection.  That would require back-end 
work which could be common between the two platforms.

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Closing as DUP of Bug 214782 (ie. INVALID)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214782 ***