359257 - Filters: Intersects Nickname filter match

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Penelope Graveyard :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[Matt Dudziak]

Penelope needs filter match actions that works the way the current Eudora's 'Intersects Nickname' and 'Intersects Address Book' actions do.

In other words, a way to say that if a message is 'From:' someone in a specific address book, perform an action on that message.

This filter action should not, of course, be limited to the From field. It should work on any recipient field.

Comment 1

[dg1950]

This is #1 on my list of features for trying any other email client. I have too many filters to spend my time redoing them in another program, in order to see if it's as good as Eudora otherwise.

Comment 2

[Scott R]

As fas as I know no other email client allows this and it is my #1 reason for sticking with eudora over the past years too.

Comment 4

[Radu]

Eudora filters criteria "any header" is not understood by Penelope, which requires one or more specific and well defined headers

Comment 5

[Radu]

The warning for such a "any header" filter import looks like this:

<<Any Header>> contains [e-mail]: can't import the <<Any Header>> meta-header

Comment 6

[Scott R]

Radu, like many here I am expressing their my desire for important Eudora features. If I understand your comment correctly, then you are pointing out it is not supported and you are indicating that it gives an error message during the migration process, but that is not acceptable to those that require this feature. The whole point of Bug 359257 is that some of use need it or we will NOT migrate to Penelope.

Comment 7

[Scott R]

Bug 359257 talks about the "address book" for those not familiar with the the Eudora address book is hierarchical. The "Address Book" contains 1 or more "Books". "Books" contain 1 or more "Address Entries". "Address Entry" objects (I think it is accurate to call these "Nicknames")  may contain several mail addresses (namely Work, Home, Other etc). An "Address entry" may be a distribution list (meaning the Work, Home, Other may expand to several addresses. 

So in the original description of Bug 359257, 'Intersects Nickname' and 'Intersects Address Book' actions refer to the "Address Entries" object and the "Book" object respectively. For example, I may have 2 books call "Friends" and "Work". The "Friends" book may have "Frank" and "Fred" and in "Work" you may  "Will" and "Wade". My filter rules would read if "From:" header 'Intersects Address Book' "Friends" then do action(s) etc. This functionality cuts down the number of rules required because my e-mail contacts are processed as collection containers. Any exceptions are handled by additional 'Intersects Nickname' or other forms of filters. Bug 359257 functionality is therefore quite sophisticated and the full functionality is what is required (my opinion).

Comment 8

[Jeff Beckley]

Thunderbird actually has an "intersects address book" filter match condition.  If you select a recipient header (From, To, Cc, or To or Cc), then two of the possible match verbs are "is in my address book" and "isn't in my address book".  And you get to select which of your address books you want to match against.

Thunderbird does not have a way to match against a specific entry in an address book, so the Summary of this bug has been updated to reflect that.

Comment 9

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Penelope didn't see any activity in the vcs for the last 8 years, closing.