403880 - imap read messages don't get filtered

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 308148

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[sebastiano]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: 20071031

Today I've read a newsletter email from a webmail app, then I got back home, opened thunderbird (configured with an IMAP account) and I've noticed that the email that I've already read didn't get filtered, while the others went correctly to the folder specified by filter. I invoked manual application of filters in the imap INBOX and also the read message got filtered

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up an IMAP account in TB
2. prepare a filter, i.e. one that matches [SOME] in subject
3. send it to the email address and mark email as read outside TB
4. open TB and notice that email doesn't get filtered until manual invoke
Actual Results:  
email stays in the INBOX folder on server

Expected Results:  
should have been transfered on a local folder, as defined by filter

I think that this bug is related only to imap accounts, as POP3 accounts download the mail on pc, but still I haven't tried (searching for another account)

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

(In reply to comment #0)
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. set up an IMAP account in TB
>(snip)
> 4. open TB and notice that email doesn't get filtered until manual invoke

Sounds Bug 184490.
What filter rule do you define for the unmoved mail?

> [e-mail]

Gmail IMAP still has problems(bug) and still has resrictions.
Read meta Bug 402793 and documents pointed in it.
If Gmail IMAP related/unique issue, get IMAP protocol log and check real protocol level flow first. 

Comment 2

[sebastiano]

I've defined a rule to move messages in a local folder, and it works for unread messages. No, is not related to gmail since I use it only from web, in particular I've encountered this bug with a tiscali (italian and uk provider) mailbox

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

It's per design... (and quite logical I'd say, especially as you have the option to run the filter manually later).