262185 - Filters should be able to take action on "every message"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 66771

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Judson Valeski]

Mail.app (OS X's mail client) supports the filter notion of "every message."
This allows you to take action on any message that comes in.

Comment 1

[Judson Valeski]

I found an _ugly_ work around for this.

create a filter and create rules for each alpha-numeric character, upper and
lower case. yup, one rule per character (I said it was ugly). make sure the
filter is setup to apply to any rule.

it's not 100%, it's painful, but it sort of works.

Comment 2

[Judson Valeski]

now that I actually tried it, I get some mail server doesn't support "SEARCH"
command when I try to run the filter. that doesn't make sense  to me... not sure
why the server's involved in running filters.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

what about subject != xxyyzzhellogoodbye ? it seems pretty easy to create a
filter that won't match any message... or sender == a (which is not a legal
address - not sure what will happen with that one...)

Comment 4

[Judson Valeski]

_nice_. thanks for flipping that bit in my head.

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

> Mail.app (OS X's mail client) supports the filter notion of "every message."
> This allows you to take action on any message that comes in.

QuickMail also has this, and I'll attach two screen shots that explain how the
UI works.

Comment 6

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

Attachment: screen shot 1 (no criteria, take action on every message)

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

Attachment: screen shot 2 (I hit "more", now it's looking like what we know)

Comment 8

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

Attachment: screen shot 3 (what the menulist looks like)

Comment 9

[Doug Wright]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66771 ***