272952 - Eudora migration should import filters

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 359255

(Thunderbird :: Migration, enhancement)

Description

[oliver]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (20041201)

Noticed in migrating from Eudora 6.1 that Message Filters were not migrated.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Eudora 6.1 (Sponsored)
2. Create some Filters in Eudora (eg. match sender, transfer to a folder).
3. Install TB and choose Eudora import option.
Actual Results:  
No filters were migrated from Eudora 6.1 to Thunderbird.

Expected Results:  
The migrate should have recreated the old Eudora filters as Thunderbird filters
closely as possible.  Since it's done at the same time as the mail/folders
import, it should be possible to wire up the "Transfer To <folder>" type actions
to the right folders.

In my Eudora 6.1 installation my filters appear to live in Filters.pce.

Obviously certain filter criteria and actions may not have a TB equivalent. A
decision would need to be made whether to notify the user of those, or just fail
silently.

But it's the message transfer filters that were most important to me (eg. for
handling a large number of mailing lists), and probably most other Eudora users
who rely on filters.

Comment 1

[Yann Rouillard]

I confirm this behaviour, filters are not imported.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.

Comment 4

[gumpish]

"If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it."

I think this is incorrect, yet I am powerless to reopen it.

Isn't auto-resolving bugs a bit irresponsible? No one can be bothered to look at feature requests? And here I thought that WONTFIX was the most arrogant response to a user request...

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

confirming

Comment 6

[larry]

confirmed to still be a hole on Thunderbird 2.0.0.0.

Comment 7

[larry]

redundant bug open at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359255