227542 - 'predefined' message view for each message filter

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Daniel Brooks [:db48x]]

I recently saw mozilla mark a message that one of my filters had moved to
another folder as junk mail and then move it to the spam folder. This is really
the only false positive I've noticed in a few months, so it probably doesn't
happen very often. However, I get a lot of spam, and because a signifigant
portion of my legitimate email is from message lists, It'll be very hard to wade
through all that spam looking for one or two messages from people I don't know
but that aren't spam. Messages from them won't show up if I use the "People I
Know" view (naturally if I had them in my address book the messages wouldn't
have been marked as junk in the first place), and none of the other views are
terribly helpful.

What I need is a way to view the messages that would match one of the filters
I've set up. I would suggest that these show up as a submenu of the View
dropdown, allowing me to view that subset of messages that would match the
filter of my choosing.

After all, what are message folders but a precursor to message views? :)

Comment 1

[(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 2

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

apparently this is junk related. I can't totally visualize what this might look like, but whatever it is I don't see this being practical, or generally useful, do you?

Comment 4

[:aceman]

I imagine this can be already done by adding action "mark as not junk" or "tag" into each filter. If this were builtin, TB would also need to add some mark into the message header, that the msg was touched by a filter. Filters could be changed later, but this mark should be preserved. So it would take space the same way as a tag.