257759 - Run Filters on Folder is broken for pop3 accounts deferring to local folders

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177093

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

To reproduce:
0. Fetch a current cvs nightly
1. Create some mail filters
2. Select some mail folder
3. Run Tools->Run Filters on Folder

Results: Nothing happens. No errors appear in JS Console.

Note this happens with POP3 account, so is not the same as the IMAP bugs. Maybe
also related is that i use the Global Inbox feature for my 3 POP3 Accounts. Also
related might be that Run Now in the Message Filters window doesn't work, too.

Comment 1

[Adam Doppelt]

ditto -  no workie with Thunderbird 0.8 win32 (2 pop accounts, global inbox)

Comment 2

[Andrew Benton]

I've seen this bug with Thunderbird-0.8 on Windows XP and Linux and also with
recent builds of Mozilla (on Linux - I've not tried that on Windows). It does
seem to be because of the Local Folders/global inbox. If I use an old profile
with it's own inbox (not under Local Folders) the filters work fine. I don't
think Thunderbird 0.8 should have been released with this bug. I'd like to flag
this as blocking Thunderbird-0.9 but I don't know how.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

patch upcoming

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

make the set of folders the filter can run on after the fact the folders for
the deferred to account.

Comment 5

[Andrew Benton]

The patch doesn't work for me on Linux. If I create a profile with a global,
Local Folders inbox, message filters don't work.

Comment 6

[Andrew Benton]

Oops, sorry, it is working for new mail as it arrives from my ISP, it wasn't
immediately obvious. The filters don't work on the global inbox for mail that
has already been downloaded. Those messages have to be moved manually. The
filters work for new mail, thats the main thing. Sorry for the bugspam.

Comment 7

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Oops, sorry, it is working for new mail as it arrives from my ISP, it wasn't
> immediately obvious. The filters don't work on the global inbox for mail that
> has already been downloaded. Those messages have to be moved manually. The
> filters work for new mail, thats the main thing. Sorry for the bugspam.

But this bug was actually about moving mail that has already been downloaded.
I'll check later if this patch has fixed it.

Comment 8

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

indeed, this doesn't fix it. Still no errors in JS Console, still doesn't work.

Comment 9

[David :Bienvenu]

do you even see the list of folders that you could run the filter on, after this
fix? Or is it still blank/missing?

Comment 10

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

(In reply to comment #9)
> do you even see the list of folders that you could run the filter on, after this
> fix? Or is it still blank/missing?

Maybe we talk about different things ;-)? Running single message filters from
Tools-Message Filters... works fine. But when i run Tools->Run Filters on Folder
(as said in Comment 0), i would expect it loops through all "real" accounts and
runs the filters from each account (of course it should look to which account a
mail belongs to before performing a action on a mail).

Comment 11

[David :Bienvenu]

I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I was thinking of running single message filters
from Tools-Message Filters, like you said. 

Since there are no filters for local folders, run filters on folder won't work
for the local folder inbox. Associating the filters with messages from the
incoming account and running them would be a fair amount of work. Allowing the
user to define local folders account filters and running those would be a lot
easier.

Comment 12

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

(In reply to comment #11)
> Since there are no filters for local folders, run filters on folder won't work
> for the local folder inbox. Associating the filters with messages from the
> incoming account and running them would be a fair amount of work. Allowing the
> user to define local folders account filters and running those would be a lot
> easier.

Maybe we could just gray out/hide this menu-point then or something like that?

Comment 13

[Andrew Benton]

(In reply to comment #12)
> 
> Maybe we could just gray out/hide this menu-point then or something like that?
> 

But that means we'll have no way to automatically sort the inbox into separate
folders. I leave the mail on the server for one week so when I set up a new
Thunderbird profile more than 300 messages land in the Inbox. To sort them by
hand has just taken me two and a half hours of tedium. It used to take a couple
of minutes to set up message rules which did it automatically.

Comment 14

[David :Bienvenu]

I'm going to make it so you can define filters for local folders - they will
only be used for filter after the fact - you may end up having to have copies of
each filter, one for the incoming server, and one for the local folders account,
which is kind of a pain, but better than what we have now.

Comment 15

[john cooper]

(In reply to comment #14)
> I'm going to make it so you can define filters for local folders - they will
> only be used for filter after the fact - you may end up having to have copies of
> each filter, one for the incoming server, and one for the local folders account,
> which is kind of a pain, but better than what we have now.

I agree.  While this approach is perhaps then less
than pristine, it is greatly preferable compared to
manually sorting local messages.

If it counts for anything, this feature was what
finally convinced me to dump old Mozilla as a mail
client.  I'd used the Thunderbirs-0.8 local sort
(with IMAP where it was functional) and was sold.
Moving to POP3 (for unrelated reasons) and losing
the ability to locally sort was rather disappointing.

Comment 16

[David :Bienvenu]

marking dup...

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