296090 - Run Filters On Folder displays dialog for each filter

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

In 1.8b1, email filtering for IMAP worked fine.
Now in Mozilla 1.8b2
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050522
filtering fails with an error message that says 
   Applying filter "filter name" failed.  Would you like to continue applying 
   filters?"  [OK] [cancel]
Attempting to edit the failing filters causes a crash.

Comment 1

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Same bug as bug 296141?  Nelson, do you have a Talkback incident ID?

Comment 2

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

This bug occurs when I select Tools->"Run Filters on Folder" on the IMAP inbox.
The dialog cited above appears for one of the filters for the inbox.
When I click OK, the next filter appears, and so on. 
If I click cancel, and then try again, I get the same dialogs for the same
filter names again.  I checked the file containing the filters.  They are
all there.

The crash occurs only when I attempt to edit the filters.

I doubt this is the same bug as 296141.  That bug talked about a "target"
folder missing.  I don't know if he meant the folder to which the filters
were being applied, or the folders to which the filtered messages would be
moved.  But in my case, all those folders exist.  The inbox exists. 
The folders to which the messages would be filtered exist (on the IMAP 
server).  

When I send a talkback, I don't get a talkback ID, and it seems that the
talkback web pages provide no way to search on talkback IDs by email address.
But I can make this happen at will, so if there's any info I can collect
that will help identify it, I'm willing to do it again.

Comment 3

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Nelson: grep your directories for "talkback.exe" and find the most recent
incident.  You can context-click and paste the incident ID into
http://talkback-public.mozilla.org.  Thanks!

Comment 4

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

talkback.exe showed nothing.  But a search through talkback-public.m.o for 
the string filter in the last 10 days revealed these:
http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/talkback/fastfind.jsp?search=2&type=iid&id=6273091
http://talkback-public.mozilla.org/talkback/fastfind.jsp?search=2&type=iid&id=6274157

Comment 5

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242600 ***

Comment 6

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Technutz, Does bug 242600 also duplicate the report that the imap filters 
all fail when running filters on the imap inbox?  (doens't look like it to me)

Comment 7

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

We can reopen this one and let it stand for the "applying filters fails"
portion, however the newer stack traces in 242600 are the same as yours, and we
can't have 2 issues per bug.  Your call, I was just taking care of the worse
problem, the crash.

Comment 8

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Changing the Summary to narrow this bug to the failure of each and every
filter when I attempt to apply my filters to my IMAP inbox.

Note that the filters seem to work OK when new email arrives in the inbox.
It's only when I "Run Filters On folder" that I get all these dialogs,
one for each filter (apparently).

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Nelson, do you still see this?  ISTR this is gone.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

=> incomplete
feel free to add new info / change disposition if not agreeable.

Comment 11

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

I haven't seen this in ages.  Suggest WFM.