369278 - Filter does not match the name in To: line

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Joachim Kluge]

User-Agent:       Opera/9.10 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)
Build Identifier: version 2 beta 2 (20070116)

A filter does only match the e-mail address in the To: line. When you search for name and address, no there's no match. Adding the To: line as customized filter does work but after a restart the default To is selected.
I file this as Bug since I expect a mail filter to be able to filter for name + address and customizing does not work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Inbox, select an example message and view the message source
2. Copy name and adress out of To: line. e.g. "Average Joe" <[e-mail]>
3. Add new filter with "To contains "Average Joe" <[e-mail]>"
4. As action select e.g. "tag message"
5. Run the filter on inbox --> nothing happens
6. Edit filter and change from "To" to "To" as customized header
7. Run the filter on inbox --> action happens
8. Restart Firefox and edit Filter --> the default To is selected again and filtering does not work


Expected Results:  
In step 5 the action should be performed.
Or in step 8 the customized To should be kept

There are some more bugs which prevent possible ways of working with name + address:

Bug 99997 – "Copy email address" doesn't copy name https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99997
Bug 327621 – Make From/To name+address mail header pane selectable in order to allow copying https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=327621

Comment 1

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

WFM with Linux 2.0.0.19.