291688 - Add GMail-like labeling of messages instead of first-match-wins filters.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Keladis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Assume an email is sent to [e-mail] and [e-mail] and the user
is subscribed to both, the user will receive two copies of the mail (one for
each list).

Using the existing (traditional) filter system, the first matching filter wins,
and both copies of the email are matched by the first winning filter and are
acted upon (eg moved to a folder).

So, folder1 will contain both copies of the same cross-posted email. The email
sent to listA and to listB (as the emails themselves are identical).

folder2 (with a corresponding filter to match listB) will not get either mail.

This makes for very confusing reading. Cross-posted messages will end up in one
folder or another, depending on which filter is matched first.

A better solution is to use labels (credit to GMail for the idea), to custom
label the message for each matching list (an e-mail can have more than one label).

So, when the user asks to see all messages sent to listA, a search is done to
display messages with a label for "listA". The same can be done for "listB" and
the messages will be displayed sensibly.

This idea can be extended to a kind of "virtual folder" where a virtual-folder
is created, which in reality is simply a display-filter for a particular label.

When the user enters the virtual-folder, emails with matching labels are
presented, giving the illusion the messages are organized in individual folders
when in fact they are not.

This will go a long way helping those of us who are subscribed to multiple lists
where messages are regularly cross-posted, and like to filter them to make the
threads easier to follow.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to/duplicate of Core bug 248178/bug 11051?

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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