218692 - [RFE] Apply the junk language model engine to all folders, and use its rankings to highlight likely targets when refiling messages

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 168905

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[Edward Loper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
Build Identifier: 

Use the machine learning system that's already implemented for detecting junk 
(or a new one) to build models for each individual folder.  When the user 
starts dragging a message to refile it in a folder, highlight the folders that 
are the most likely candidates for that message.  Some possibilities for 
highlighting likely folders: boldface; color; background color.  For the 
purposes of scoring folders, closed nested folders should inherit the sum of 
the probabilities of their child folders.

This would make it much easier to refile messages for those of us who have lots 
of folders. :)

This could also be used to sort target possibilities if you ever implemented a 
keyboard-based method of refiling messages (which would be nice for users with 
motion disabilities).

I might be willing to look into working on this myself if you can give me some 
pointers to the places in the code where I should start working.  (I don't have 
any experience with the mozilla/firebird code base.)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

mailnews specific and a dupe.

Comment 2

[Joe Infla]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 168905 ***