387008 - Run Filters on Folder not working correctly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Robert Joy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1)
Build Identifier: 1.5.0.12

I have a message filter that has been working for well over a year. Just recently it has stopped working. Not sure what changed but if I use "Message Filters..." on the Tools menu and hit the "Run Now" button it still works but it does not work as the email is coming into the inbox nor does it work if I do "Run Filters on Folder" from the Tools menu. Actually I'm not even sure it is limited to just this one filter. It may be all the filters.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tools -> Run Filters on Folder
Actual Results:  
No filtering.

Expected Results:  
Should move offending email to Junk folder.

This is the filter text: OTHR_WAM1681512

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

What is your filter trying to do? Please give us your match criteria and the actions which are performed. And what version of Thunderbird are you using? We cannot help with such less information. Thanks.

Comment 2

[Robert Joy]

Body contains WAM1681512 move message to Junk on Local Folders

As I said before this used to work and now it doesn't. The filter was not changed.

The version of Thunderbird is included above now and I'll state it here as well: 1.5.0.12

Thanks!

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Can you run a test or better upgrade to Thunderbird 2.0.0.4? Can you reproduce it with our last official release? Could you attach the msgFilterRules.dat which is not working? I'll then try to reproduce.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Oh, does that happen with the automatically update to a more secure version? Perhaps it could be a regression. If you know which version of Thunderbird 1.5 was working you should also try out that one.

Comment 5

[Robert Joy]

Attachment: Message Filter file

Here's the file you requested.

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Comment on attachment 271452 [details]
Message Filter file

There are no filters in it. Do you have attached the correct file?

Comment 7

[Robert Joy]

Attachment: The real message filter file

Sorry, I grabbed the wrong one before.

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

haven't examined the filter file, but the description is reminiscent of bug 201244 / bug 355537.

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Robert, 
What do you see in tools>options>advanced>update-tab>show update history?  
Did you determine in which update it started failing, and whether it affects just one or ALL filters?

Comment 10

[Robert Joy]

I'm sorry Wayne. I should have ask you guys to closed this bug as it seems only related to ver 1.5. I upgraded to version 2.0 and it all seems to be working again.