347190 - message filters should be folder specific

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 294632

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Aaron]

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Build Identifier: version 2 alpha 1 (20060724)

I think message filters should be folder specific, rather than account specific. I know you can go into the message filters window and choose a folder on which to run a disabled filter, but I want the filter to run automatically and only on one folder.

Here is a situation that I want such a thing for: I use an IMAP server for my email. I like to keep all of my old mail in an archive folder on the server and only keep unread and still important messages in the inbox (I'm modeling this loosely off of Gmail). I have a filter set up to copy unread messages into the archive folder, which essentially accomplishes this. The problem is, that these messages in the archived folder are all still unread and I would like to add a filter to mark them as read. Under the current system, the only way that I know of to get a filter to mark those messages as read would also mark the messages in my inbox as read, which I don't want. The only real way to make this work automatically would be to put the archive folder in the local folders, but then it wouldn't be on the server, which also doesn't work for me.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
filters run on all folders in account

Expected Results:  
filters should be allowed to run on only one folder

Comment 1

[JConley]

I would vote that it also have the ability to be bound to multiple folders as well like the saved search builder does already.

see bug 350871

Comment 2

[Greg Gladwell]

This gets my vote. It would make management much easier.