304810 - i have to manually "run filters on folder" for a particular filter to work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[thenexus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

One of my filters in thunderbird don't work as the mail comes it - i have to
manually "run filters on folder" for that particular filter to work.

The filter logs show that they're being moved to the correct folder, but they
stay in the inbox. Deleting and recreating the filter doesnt work.

Other filters work perfectly.

The filter is based on a "To or cc" rule.  Rule exists and was created under
"Filters for: Local Folders"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. clicked on entry in "To:" field in ThunderBird
2. selected create filter from message.
3. changed option "Sender" to "To or cc"
4. chose folder to move to

Actual Results:  
nothing.

Expected Results:  
As mail enters the inbox, the matching emails should be moved into the chosen
folder.  Other filters work perfectly well.

Comment 1

[Keith Macpherson]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 
> The filter is based on a "To or cc" rule.  Rule exists and was created under
> "Filters for: Local Folders"
> As mail enters the inbox, the matching emails should be moved into the chosen
> folder.  Other filters work perfectly well.

Up until now, filters created on the Local Folder (global inbox) only apply to
the Local Folder inbox and are NOT automatic. It's a bit of a bug bear for me
too. Check whether the working filters are applied to the associated account:
Tools | Message Filters | Filters for ...

Have a look at bug 242665 to check whether it matches your experience. I found
it did mine.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

filters for local mail folders don't run on incoming mail even when using the
global inbox, in 1.0x. This is fixed in 1.5, and trunk builds.