450421 - Cannot filter messages because the 'message "filter rules" menu' is missing "filter rules" (degenerate dialog box)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 420106

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[glenn n. davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.16 (20080708) (it started earlier but never corrected)

The dialog under the titles:
<>match all of the following <> match any of the following <> match all messages
creates a degenerate box having width but no hight and appearing as a double  line. Clicking on match all makes even this go away and restores to two lines degenerate condition  when either of the first two are clicked.
It has survived several updates! I had hoped it would be repaired in the next update.  I am wondering if it could be reinstalled or something simple but I really dont know how to do this without ruining my messages and i am not sure if it would work anyway since updating did not fix it! I am unsure as to how to get thunderbird to reinitialize its files but reinitializing  would be my next step.
Anyway I cannot filter junk out from new sources  or sort out new folk from my inbox til this is fixed.
Old filters also cannot be edited because they have this problem too(This as i recall  is new!)but they seem to update correctly when folders are moved.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Tools>message filters...>new>
2.or Tools> messagefilters..>click on a filter> edit
3.
Actual Results:  
The dialog under the titles:
<>match all of the following <> match any of the following <> match all messages
creates a degenerate box having width but no hight and appearing as a double  line. Clicking on match all makes even this go away and restores to two lines degenerate condition  when either of the first two are clicked.
It has survived several updates

Expected Results:  
a box that includes the conditions to check lists  and the conditions
(from memory) If : sender/recipient/ ...
              Condition:    is/contains/
               <+> <-> (more or fewer conditions
(!!!!The whole line  (all of the above items) is missing!!!!!!!)

Comment 1

[glenn n. davis]

In desperation I tried Thunderbird 3.0a2 this bug still persists!
It feels like some form of data loss / corruption. I am surprised that there is not a RE initialize / repair feature for corrupted mozilla/firefox/thunderbird  products in the tools and that updating might ask if this is what you want.!

Comment 2

[glenn n. davis]

I think this (and perhaps 63918 ) is perhaps effectively a duplicate of bug 420106 with different problems but with the same resolution required
so  I am marking it so

Duplicate of 420106

Comment 3

[glenn n. davis]

I am marking this as dependent on 420106
as resolving 420106 will likely fix this in an automatic fashion without human intervention.  This problem still exists in 2.0.0.17 and i cannot resolve it.  It limits what i can do with Thunderbird. The old filters still work but I cannot change them.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Anything of interest in the Error Console? Tried without extensions?
Please attach the msgFilterRules.dat file for the account.