297681 - Some last added filters disapear on shutdown of thunderbird

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[theDCSGuy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 (ax)
Build Identifier: MozillaThunderbird 1.02

I create alot of filters to segregate my mail.  I create a filter to move
(typical) a message from a sender based on email address.  When Thunderbird is
shutdown, or more likly crashes, the filter is gone.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Create filter
2.  Filter is at top of filter list.
3.  Shut down Tbird, filter disapeared fron filter list

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Maybe related to bug 277189?

Comment 2

[Mike Trotman]

This has happened on Windows XP Pro for the last two version of thunderbird

and also happens on Fedora Core 3 (Tbird version 1.0.2).

Getting very frustrating.

Comment 3

[theDCSGuy]

This problem continues even after upgrading to Thunderbird 1.06.  Could someone
please look into this????

I have seen this behavior on three different machines,  All using different
profiles.

Each time I lauch Thunderbird I find the last created filters missing.  I
recreate the filters with the same name as before.

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I create a filter to move (typical) a message from a sender based on email
address.  When Thunderbird is shutdown, the filter is gone.

Workaround is probably opening "Tools/Message Filters" after creation of filter
and before termination of Thunderbird.
Is it be effective?

AFAK, this problem is already resolved by opening "Tools/Message Filter" window
automatically after filter creation.
(Sorry but I don't know which bug has fixed.)
Does the problem still occur with newest thunderbird/nightly/latest-trunk build?

Comment 5

[Mike Trotman]

This still happens in Thunderbird version 1.0.2 (20050317).

I currently prevent this by opening Tools/Message Filters after creating a filter
and mving the new filter(s) down below the 1st one that was there from previous
session.

In earlier versions of Thunderbird just opening Tools/Message Filters was not
sufficient.
I have not retried this in current version (in case I lose the filter!).

I don't have time / expertise to try latest trunk builds.

Comment 6

[David :Bienvenu]

the 1.0x releases contain almost exclusively security fixes - this bug is fixed
in trunk builds and the fix will be available in the next major version of
thunderbird.