295050 - should provide ability to filter on Newsgroups header

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 178397

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Philipp Kern]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412
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Thunderbird should provide the ability to filter based on the Newsgroups: header in Usenet postings. 
Services like Gmane crosspost SPAM messages to a special one to ease filtering in the clients. Currently 
Thunderbird only allows post filtering based on Subject, Sender and Date. This should be improved.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 184490 ***

Comment 2

[Philipp Kern]

Bug #184490 is about IMAP filtering. This bug is about the filtering of Usenet articles. In this mode you 
can't even "Customize" the filter to use custom headers.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

xref bug 178397, bug 178398.  This bug depends on one of those, I just don't 
know whether the Newsgroups header is provided via the HEAD or the XOVER 
command.

Comment 4

[Philipp Kern]

Well, HEAD provides the full headers (including Newsgroups:) of arbitrary message-ids and numbers in the 
current newsgroups. XOVER lists only headers like Date, Subject, From, Message-ID and some others. 
However as you have to select a newsgroup with LISTGROUP prior to sending XOVER, the group itself is 
known. But yes, you cannot filter on the Newsgroups header just by judging the XOVER output (which is 
probably the one the whole message list is generated of). So Thunderbird should send HEAD requests 
when filtering is enabled.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[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 7

[Philipp Kern]

Thunderbird does still not allow to filter on the Newsgroups headers, so it's impossible to use it with 
Gmane which crossposts SPAM to gmane.spam.detected. One has to use a real Usenet client like slrn 
instead. Close it if you want but please be aware that this is a serious flaw for some users.

Comment 8

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

As the reporter, and as someone who actually followed up and read the referenced 
bugs, you should have marked this as a dupe yourself.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 178397 ***