451885 - msgFilterRules.dat should be stored on server for IMAP mailboxes (lite roaming alternative)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78858

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: General, enhancement)

Description

[Bryce Mozilla Nesbitt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080316 SUSE/1.1.9-1.1 SeaMonkey/1.1.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080316 SUSE/1.1.9-1.1 SeaMonkey/1.1.9

I'm proposing that msgFilterRules.dat be stored on the server for IMAP mailboxes.

I use Seamonkey at home, Seamonkey at work, and occasionally Seamonkey on my wife's computer.  Everything is seamless with IMAP mail, except it is a real pain to keep filter rules in sync.  The msgFilterRules.dat file does not seamlessly move between Seamonkey/Thunderbird instances on different OS's.

The ONLY thing that does not seamlessly transfer are the filter rules.  Without my filter rules I get so much mailing list traffic it is impractical to read mail.

As msgFilterRules.dat is just a flat file, it would be easy to save on the IMAP server.  Doing so may take a lot of the pressure off the full two-way roaming profile synchronization that has been broken for many many years.

Ideally Thunderbird and Seamonkey would be able to parse the same file.

So in summary:
1) store msgFilterRules.dat on IMAP servers
2) harmonize file format and mailbox names between platforms (easy).

Here is example filter rule from msgFilterRules.dat
-------------------------------------------
ame="[e-mail]"
enabled="yes"
type="1"
action="Move to folder"
actionValue="imap://[e-mail]/Z-SPAM"
action="JunkScore"
actionValue="100"
condition="OR (cc,is,[e-mail]) OR (subject,begins with,*{spam}*) OR (to or cc,contains,[e-mail])"
-------------------------------------------

Here's a procmail alternative (I got fed up with this issue, and so installed procmail on my server -- but many people can't do this):
-------------------------------------------
# Tricky DeMorgan's law OR.  Empty line is required before the E rule.
:0
* ! ^Sender: [e-mail]
* ! ^Sender: [e-mail]
* ! ^Sender: [e-mail]
* ! ^Sender: [e-mail]
* ! ^Sender: [e-mail]
{ }

:0 E:
Lists-Misc

:0
/var/mail/bryce
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Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Bryce Mozilla Nesbitt]

See also the Thunderbird version at Bug #451886

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Old request.