229521 - Can't run filters on a custom folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177093

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Alexandre Gomes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208

we can't run a filter in other folder than the default folders.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Define a filters
2. Move a "will-be-filtered" message to a folder defined by you.
3. Try to use the filter to filter that message

Actual Results:  
We can't select another folder other than the default folders

Expected Results:  
Show the default folders and an additional menu-item for browse for another folders.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reporter, your report is a bit confusing.  Do you mean you can't specify a 
particular folder as a target for the filter, or that you can't run the filter 
on messages contained in a particular folder?

What do you mean by "custom folder"?  Is this a folder in a POP account, an IMAP 
account, or the "Local Folders"?  How many levels deep is this folder?

Comment 2

[Alexandre Gomes]

Sorry, I'm portuguese and I don't speak english very well.

Go to tools and select Message Filters...
There you can select one of your filters. Select one.
Now in the bottom of that form you have a combobox "Run select filter(s) on:" ->
Here you can't select a folder from Local Folders.

I wrote "custom folder" where I mean a folder created by me in the Local folders.

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Message filter for "Locl Folders" is not available yet.
See Bug 177093

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The reason is, filters are defined at an account level (or at an individual 
newsgroup level).  When you run a filter (for the mail account) on a folder, 
that folder has to exist within the same mail account.  (This is not the best 
design, but that's how it is right now.)

"Local Folders" is a virtual account, but it does not have filters; the request 
for this feature, as noted in comment 3, is bug 177093.  See also bug 66391, and 
bug 129883.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177093 ***