268434 - filter fails on Sender (imap)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[rddunlap]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: version 0.9 (20041103)

I have lots of working filters (using List-Id or X-Mailing-List), but a filter
that uses Sender never filters emails for me.  The Sender value to filter on
is "[e-mail]".

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  set up filter for Sender contains [e-mail]
2.  receive email from the linux-mm mailing list
3.  email stays in my Inbox


Actual Results:  
email stays in my Inbox.

Expected Results:  
email should have been moved to the linux-mm folder.

Comment 1

[D.J. van Enckevort]

I noticed the same behaviour here with Thunderbird 0.9 (build 20041119 / Debian
unstable). I tested it with accounts on different IMAP servers (CommuniGate &
Cyrus) with the same result. The headers I tried were:
* Reply-To
* Resent-From
* Return-Path
All failed both used in a view and in a filter.

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #0)

Multi-line(folded) header case?
Check From: header of mail source of unfiltered mail if rule is "Sender contains".
If yes, see Bug 124641.

Comment 3

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

What mail header do you say by word "Sender"?
"Sender" in filter panel is probably "From:" header on current Mozilla/Thunderbird.
(See msgFilterRules.dat content for rule of "Sender is" or "Sender contains")

Comment 4

[Adrian Mettler]

I had several filters on "Sender" (I added a custom filter field for Sender, as
the Sender field listed apparently actually filters on From).  These filters
worked on Mozilla 1.7.3, both on Windows and Linux; after I upgraded each of
them to 1.7.5, these filters no longer worked for newly arriving messages.  (For
Linux, I can't remember whether I upgraded directly from 1.7.3 -> 1.7.5 or if I
went to 1.7.4 first, and 1.7.4 worked).

When I made a custom field named "Sender", it used to filter on the actual
"Sender" field; now when new messages appear to not be filtered at all.  When I
use "Run filters on folder", it has the previous (correct) behavior of sorting
by the message's "Sender" header.

This bug should cease to exist if bug 40934 is properly fixed, but fixing this
bug (by reverting to behavior in 1.7.3) is not dependent on fixing 40934.  (The
original report may have in fact been a dupe of 40934 but not enough information
was given for me to rule out it being the same bug as I discovered in 1.7.5)

Comment 5

[M]

Duplicate of 221724 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221724 :
Thunderbird filter on "sender" actually filters on "from") and of several
others, like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40934 which is 5 years
old! Is it so hard to replace the text "Sender" in the filter field list with
"From"? 

Comment 6

[M]

This bug seems to be fixed in version 1.0+ (20050513).

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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