410474 - filter rule with forward doesn't forward to list of recipients

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Michael WIse]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.9 (20071031)

The filter rules only allow a single instance of forward, which is tough if you want to forward items matching some criteria to a list of people. I created a list of 5 people, but Thunderbird baulks with the message: "Enter a valid email address to forward to".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a list
2.create a filter rule that forwards to that list under some trigger
3.

Comment 1

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

What do you mean by your "list of recipients"?

(A) "Mailing List" of "Address Book" of Tb, which simply assigns a name for multiple mail addresses? (Expanded to multiple mail addresses in To:/CC:/BCC: header, if specified in To:/CC:/BCC: field of mail compose window)

(B) Or "group" defined by RFC 2822?
> group = display-name ":" [mailbox-list / CFWS] ";" [CFWS]

If (B), probably DUP of Bug 83521, because filter of forward utilizes "Compose" function internally.


    

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Following comment has been sent from Michael Wise(bug opener) to me by mail. 
> I was referring to a list created by Tb itself, so choice A. Such lists work
> correctly when used directly (I mail to a list) or in a forward done from the Tb
> top level (I forward to a list), but not as a destination for for a filter rule.

Comment 3

[guanxi]

a comma-delimited list works in the filter field

Comment 4

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Validating RFE , and changing to a RFE

Comment 5

[Kent James (:rkent)]

I assume that comment 5 is interpreting this bug as a request to support adding an email list name from the address book as the value of a forward filter action.

Comment 0 's "The filter rules only allow a single instance of forward" is a related issue that is probably easily fixable after looking at the code.

Comment 7

[P.Klausner]

I understand, that I can get the effect by adding multiple forwarding rules or a comma separated recipient list.  But that means maintaining the list in two places.  Or just within the filter rule set w/o any support from the address book, like autocomplete for the email addresses.
The above mentioned syntax "list-name:;" sounds like a good idea, but from the timeline of this bug I deduct it's very unlikely to be doable.