259746 - Create filter from more than one selected message

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Arik Funke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.21  [en]
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It would be a useful feature if TB could create filters from more than one 
selected message. E.g. Add all the sender fields to one filter. Right now if one 
wants to create a filter to filter out emails from 20 different people one has 
to:

1. Copy sender address
2. Create filter
3. Exit all dialogs
4. Copy sender address
5. Add to filter
6. ...
7. ...

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

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Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reopening

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I can't picture under what circumstances this would be used on a frequent basis.

Comment 5

[ARF]

I am surprised how anybody can live without this. ;-)

Suppose you are communication with a range of people only regarding one topic, e.g. because you are part of an ad-hoc team. To create a filter to sort the messages from those people into a folder one has to copy each email address and add them manually to a filter. This is extremely tedious.

An easier solution would be: mark all messages from the relevant people on your message list and create a filter automatically.

Does this now make sense to you Wayne?