265261 - Message Filter dialog forces all filters to be run on the same folder.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel Beckham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041013 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041013 Firefox/0.10

The Message Filter dialog forces all filters to be run on the same folder.    
Changing the "Run selected filters on" list box seems to globally change the
folder for all filters.  It's impossible to assign a specific filter to a
specific folder.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create more than one filter.
2. Select one of the filters
3. Change the "Run selected filters on" list box to some folder other than Inbox
4. Select a different filter, note the value in the list box
5. Change the listbox to another folder.
6. Go back to the original filter, note the value in the listbox

Actual Results:  
The "Run selected filters on" list box is globally applied to all filters.  It
retains the same value for all filters.

Expected Results:  
The "Run selected filters on" list box should have a seperate value for each
filter, allowing filters to be run on different folders.

Comment 1

[Jan Moesen]

Dupe of bug 227909

Comment 2

[Jan Moesen]

Or not quite, sorry about the bugspam. (Also in bug 265264.)

If I get it correctly, the reporter assumes it is possible to specify which
folder a filter should run on. AFAIK that listbox is only used to pick a folder
to *manually* run the selected filter(s) on, not to specify a per-filter folder.
Then again, I could be wrong.

Comment 3

[Daniel Beckham]

(In reply to comment #2)
> If I get it correctly, the reporter assumes it is possible to specify which
> folder a filter should run on. AFAIK that listbox is only used to pick a folder
> to *manually* run the selected filter(s) on, not to specify a per-filter folder.
> Then again, I could be wrong.

Yes, when I filed this bug, I was under the assumption that you could choose
which folder(s) a filter would be applied to.  

I did not realize at the time that Thunderbird is POP3 centric and does not
support the idea of multiple IMAP folders that could have mail delivered
directly to them from advanced mailer daemons like qmail. (qmail.org)

I guess this bug could be closed as Thunderbird was never meant to do this.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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