382799 - Message Filter on Date enhancements

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Steve]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070515 Firefox/2.0.0.4
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I would really appreciate a message filter on Date, that allows for some "clever" options.

e.g.
if [Date] [is Before] [1 week ago] then...
if [Date] [is After] [1 week ahead] then...

The clever options being the "1 week ago/ahead", or similar "today","tomorrow","yesterday", "X months ago/ahead" etc.

There are many reasons for such a filter, but a good example is filtering SPAM, that intentionally sets the Date to be a date far in the future, or way in the past, to get their message to the top/bottom of your inbox.

With a filter available as listed above, I could easily do:

"if sender is not in my addressbook" and ("date is before 1 week ago" or "date is after 1 week ahead") then send to my Junk/Trash folder.

PS I know there is an "Age in days" filter, but I am under the impression that this would only work when run on the inbox/a folder after messages had been there for a period of time.  My filter above would only run when messages were downloaded from the server.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Feature Request, no steps
Actual Results:  
Feature Request, no results

Expected Results:  
Ability to choose a "logical/dynamic" date rather than a static date.

Options like:
Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow
Last Week/Month/Year
Next Week/Month/Year
or
{x} Weeks/Months/Years Ago/Ahead

Bug: 381726 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381726

Has some similar feature functionality, as does:

"Javascript filter actions"
Bug: 11037 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11037

However I hope that this issue has merit of its own

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

The days in age operates on the Date header, should work just fine on incoming mails too. For future dates, see bug 358909.

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

What you want is the Age in Days feature, as Magnus describes.