278756 - Mail filters dump in random folders or do not apply at all

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[irixx]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206)

I have multiple mail accounts on multiple servers.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. correctly apply all filters with no possibility for overlapping into other
folders, no wrong keywords or folders etc.

2. check email, which automatically applies mail filters



Actual Results:  
1. mail appears with at least a few filtered posts remaining in the inbox,
rather than being sorted into my folders.

2. since Thunderbird 1.0, my mail has been appearing randomly in different email
accounts to the ones i have specified. this of course has lead to messages being
ignored or left unreplied until later. 

3. Filtered messages also appear randomly in other filtered folders.

Expected Results:  
mail filters applied correctly.

mail should appear in the correct account, not random accounts.

i have found somewhat similiar bugs reported regarding mail filters and folders,
but nothing of the type or level that i experience.

this has only occured since the update to Thunderbird 1.0. i am using the
current release downloaded from the front page of mozilla.org - a seriously
embarrassing problem for developers.

Comment 1

[Russell Owen]

This happens when creating filters by right clicking on a component of an email
(From or To field) and selecting "Create Filters from Message".  The resultant
filter is not created in the correct folder.  As a result, running this filter
has no effect.  The filter must be manually re-entered in the correct folder. 
This also highlights some filter UI limitations.  The folder should be an
editable property of the filter.  There should also be a global view that shows
all filters across multiple folders.  Organizing filters by folder is useful but
makes the filters seem fragmented.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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