297787 - Autocreate filters disappear when Thunderbird is restarted.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 277189

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Taylor L. Riché]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4

If I use the autocreate filter from message option, the filter does not persist
across restarts. However, if I create a new filter by hand from the filter
window, it seems to work fine. The autocreate filter does work after I create
it; it just disappears when I restart the program.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Autocreate new filter
2. Close and restart thunderbird
3. Filter should be gone

Actual Results:  
The filter dissappears.

Expected Results:  
The filter should have persisted.

I had never noticed this on the windows version... however, admitedly, I'm not
sure if I autocreated a filter in the newest version of Thunderbird in Windows.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of/related to bug 277189?

Comment 2

[Ilan Goldman]

also happening to me under Windows XP, using Thunderbird 1.02 (I have just
uograded to 1.05 today)

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Agreed on the dupe.  As noted there, there's been a hack put in for 1.5 that prevents the worst of this problem by popping up the Message Filters window after the filter creation dialog is closed; when you close that window, the new filter is stored to disk.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 277189 ***