274769 - filter on subject case sensitive on new mail/case insensitive when run manually

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Stephen Luce]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I created the filter (subject, begins with, "CVS Checkin to").  When a new
message comes in whose subject begins with "CVS checkin to", the filter does not
trigger. (Note the difference in case.) But if I run the filter manually from
the menu it does work.  If I change the filter to (subject, begins with, "CVS
checkin to"), it will trigger on new mail.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a filter (subject, begins with, "CVS Checkin to")
2. Recieve a message whose subject begins with "CVS checkin to" (Note the
difference in case.)

Actual Results:  
Filter was not applied to new mail.
Filter is applied when running filter from the menu.

Expected Results:  
Filter should have been applied to new mail.  (Or at least be consistent with
behavior when run from menu.)

Other details: IMAP server, running on linux Fedora Core 1, Thunderbird version
1.0 (20041206)

Comment 1

[pioterus]

I have the same problem. I don't see why filters should be case sensitve! At
least they should offera an option to choose if we want it to be. For me the
filter is case sensitive even if run it manually (tb 1.0 on Linux)

Comment 2

[Hiro]

Please check whether to correspond to the following bugs.

bug 202729
bug 260373 

Comment 3

[David Fraser]

I am unable to replicate this on Thunderbird 1.0.2 running on POP folders on Linux
The filters are case sensitive whether run on mail retrieval or later.
But see bug 239167 ("Filter in messages for "to: or cc:" is case sensitive")
which is a Thunderbird bug marked as a duplicate of bug 202558 ("Begins With"
and "Ends With" is case sensitive (Mail Views and Filters)" which says it was
fixed by the patch in bug 254740 and has been verified on a thunderbird build
from 20050311:

(from bug 202558)
> Patch for bug 254740 has fixed the sensitivity issue for these match modes, for 
most applications: filtering and quicksearch, and searching local folders, will 
all work as expected.  Searching IMAP folders is a different problem.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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