310997 - filters do not run on (and cannot be assigned to) subfolders

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 152200

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Petersen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

I submitted a bug about this awhile back but can't find it anymore to add more
information to it.

Basically, I have a "system messages" incoming folder (serverside filter) and I
would like thunderbird to be able to colorize certain messages to make them
stand out more than less important ones.

Versions of thunderbird before 1.5b have no way to run filters on subfolders at
all (it just doesn't work).  1.5b fixes this with the ability to manually run
them on subfolders, but that sort of defeats the purpose of having an automatic
filter.

From the looks of things, there's no way to specify that a filter runs on a
specific folder (or all folders, which would also be fine, though not as good as
having an option for "these folders" as well as "all folders"), and the only
folder that filters run on without manual intervention is the inbox.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

At the bottom of the filters dialog there is an option that says "Run selected
filter(s) on <folder>". Is this not what you're looking for?

Comment 2

[Chris Petersen]

As I stated in the ticket description, in 1.5b, that works..  manually.  but
there's no way to tell it to use that folder for the automatic checks on new mail.

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

Okay. Found this is a dupe, then.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152200 ***