462135 - "Create filter from..." should create the initial rule in a smarter way

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 106518

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Stewart Adam]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20081006 Shredder/3.0a3

When right-clicking an email/contact field in the message pane and selecting "Create filter from...", the message filters window appears and the initial match criteria are:
<From> <is> <that email>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a message in the preview pane
2. Right-click the "to", "reply-to" or "from" fields
3. Select "Create filter from..."
Actual Results:  
The new message filter's criteria is automatically filled set to the following:
<From> <is> <that email>


Expected Results:  
If a field other than "from" is selected, that field should be used. For example, when creating a rule for a mailing lists often the "to" field is checked instead of "from". If the user right-clicked on the "to" field before selecting "Create filter from...", then the initial filter criteria should be:
<To> <is> <that email>

Comment 1

[Stewart Adam]

Oops, I did a second search and found bug 106518... Closing this as a duplicate.