267197 - Mail account as filter criterion

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Felix M]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

When defining filters to (e.g.) sort message into different folders it would be
reasonable to have the opportunity to handle them by account. Especially if you
don't use an own folder-tree per account but only the Local Folder with
sub-folder for each account, that feature would be very helpful. BTW, this
feature is available in Outlook Express.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select Tools->Message Filters
2. Choose an account and select "new"
3. As you can see, in the "For incoming messages that match..." there is no
"from account XY" option

Actual Results:  
--

Expected Results:  
Offer a "filter-by-account" option

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

xref bug 257979.

Comment 2

[Jef Driesen]

I found a method to create a filter for a specific account. Mozilla does add a
private header named 'X-Account-Key' to every message, to identify the account.
All you have to do is lookup the value which correspond to each account in your
prefs.js file. The value should be something like 'accountx', where 'x' is a number.

Now you can create the filter criteria: 'X-Account-Key' 'is' 'accountx'

Comment 3

[Jef Driesen]

I forgot to mention that my method does not work for IMAP accounts.

Comment 4

[Felix M]

Hey, thanks a lot! I think that really works (I haven't receive enough mails yet
to be absolutely sure about it).

If there is an easy solution for imap accounts too, I suppose it won't be very
hard to solve the issue (by simply add this criterion to the list of the
defaults and give it a nicer name than x-account-key)...

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

That is a neat tip, and it will work well for mail in Local Folders *after* the 
mail has arrived.  However, it's not useful for filtering mail as it arrives: 
filters on arriving mail are only applied to the account for which they're 
defined, and currently, the filters defined under Local Folders are not applied 
to mail arriving in the global Inbox.

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

>the filters defined under Local Folders are not applied 
>to mail arriving in the global Inbox

In trunk builds, they are, and have been for a couple months, so that includes
1.1a. Is that not your experience, Mike?

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #6)
> >the filters defined under Local Folders are not applied 
> >to mail arriving in the global Inbox
> 
> In trunk builds, they are, and have been for a couple months, so that includes
> 1.1a. Is that not your experience, Mike?

Oh!  I'm sorry -- I was relying on memory.  If I'd ever known about that fix, 
I'd forgotten it; but I don't have a deferred mailbox in my normal use.

Comment 8

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 336102 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***