302017 - Message filters do not follow download size limit

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Ben]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: version 1.0.2 (20050317)

In the account settings under "Offline & Disk Space", there is an option "To
save disk space, do not download for offline use: messages larger than xxx KB".
If I define a message filter that moves messages from the IMAP Inbox to a local
folder, the message size limit is not taken into account.

This is annoying for slow dial-in connections: I set the size limit for download
to 50kB, but because of some filters, multi-megabyte messages are downloaded anyway.

Another way to solve this would be to add a size option to the filtering
mechanism to allow for:

if sender == A and size < 50 kb
then move message to folder X

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set download size limit to 50kB
2. Create filter that moves messages from an IMAP account to a local folder
3. Receive a message that complies the filter that is larger than 50kB.

Actual Results:  
Message is downloaded and moved to local folder.

Expected Results:  
Not download the message and leave it in the IMAP Inbox.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

in trunk builds, size is a filter attribute. The offline use pref does not apply
to getting new mail or moving to a local folder.

Comment 2

[Ben]

Saw the option in 1.1a2. Great!