257729 - Run Mail Filters When Sending Mail

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 11039

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Brendon Crawford]

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This is a feature request to allow Thunderbird to execute mail filters when a
message is sent. AFAIK, the filters are only run when mail is received.

There are some very good uses for this feature. For example:

Right now, all sent mail can only be directed to one mailbox when it is sent.
Thunderbird has a feature to allow for threaded "conversations". This is where
incoming AND outgoing emails which are part of the same thread or "conversation"
will be displayed in a tree-like view. One way to achieve "conversations"
similiar to that of Googles gmail is to set in the mailbox properties so that a
copy of a message will be placed in your inbox when you send a message. Then any
message which is in reply to that original message wi9ll be placed in the same
thread. The problem with this is that if you send a message and a copy is placed
in your inbox, then the recipient responds and their message is sent to another
folder because of incoming filter, the thread will be broken.

The ability to use outgoing filters is one that Eudora has had for a long time,
and i find it extremely convenient.

The exact implementation of this would need to be thought out i would assume.
For instance, outgoing filters would probably be better off being in a separate
section than incoming filters, and they may have conflicts with the ability to
place a copy of sent mail into a specific folder.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Guillaume Tamboise]

> There are some very good uses for this feature. For example:

I agree that the ability to see full conversations is very useful (tm).
If you want to have your emails as part of the conversation, you can bcc
yourself in all the emails you sent.
If you are using IMAP, it is not even too bad in terms of wasting bandwidth ;-)
(the additional cost is just: your SMTP server sends the message to your IMAP
server).

In the same vein, I believe that it would be neat if there was a filter that
could send incoming messages directly to the folder where the thread started.

Rgds

Comment 2

[Giovanni]

I agree: there are some very good uses for this feature.

One simple reason is that i would like to keep my work mail and my private mail
in different folders. I currently use some incoming filters based on some
keywords to  identify "work emails" and move them in a particular folder; i
would like to do the same thing on outgoing email too.

Regards,

Giovanni

Comment 3

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of/related to Core bug 11039?

Comment 4

[Robert Rothenberg]

See Bug #Bug 294632, "Filters should be per-folder, not per-account"

Comment 5

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11039 ***

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Note that the specific feature discussed in the original report is possible in TB 2.0 -- the Copies&Folders settings of each identity now has a checkbox for
  [] Place replies in the folder of the message being replied to

So, if you filter your mail to folders by recipient, and reply to the message from that folder, the Sent copy can be placed in that same folder.

Comment 7

[Ales Vojacek]

I have a problem, with bcc to myself when sending mail.
The blind copy is not delivered to my account :-(
TB 2b2.
Is there some solution to do this?
THX A.