271538 - Automaticly move Re: messages to the same folder as previous messages in the same thread

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 177040

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Adi Shavit]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

A very helpful feature would be automatic message filing.

Once a message is moved to a folder, e.g. on IMAP, every message referencing
this message or having the same subject from the same conversation (up to Re:,
Fwd:, [], of course), will automatically be filed into the same folder as the
original message.

This is like an ad-hoc filter for each conversation.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Take the first message of a conversation and move it to a subfolder, say, XXX
2. reply to this message, and send CC yourself too.

Actual Results:  
The message is recieved in the Inbox

Expected Results:  
The new reply message should have gone to XXX.

This feature does not AFAIK exist in any other email client, and is sorely
missed. GMail probably gives a similar experiance.

I think it is a MAJOR enhancement for Thunderbird, and I really hope to see it soon.

THANKS!

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177040 ***