472415 - Filters are not shown in "Message Filter" dialog but still work

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Laura Seabrook]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.19 (20081209)

I use about four email accounts and rather than add message filters for each account, I add and edit message filters on 'Local Folders', so that if I change accounts the filters will still apply.

Yesterday when I went into the Message Filter dialog box, NO filters were shown for ANY of the accounts, and yet they must still be there as incoming messages are sorted to the correct folders. As the filter rules are not shown, I cannot add further rules or edit them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select Tools / Message Files menu option
2. Select Local Folders in "Filters For" box
3. Select rule to edit
Actual Results:  
no rules are shown. the "New" button is active but other buttons are not

Expected Results:  
the list of rules should have appeared and I should have been able to select individual ones to edit, move or run

Comment 2

[Laura Seabrook]

(In reply to comment #1)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 129883 ***

Having looked at 129883, how is it a duplicate?
That bug does not mention any rules or files disappearing.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Well, I assumed they the filters aren't really gone - just not showing since you haven't selected the same account. Rereading your report, I guest that's not it.

It may be bug 362539, which should be resolved but... check your system and see if you have a huge amount of tmprules-xx.dat files handing around.

Comment 4

[Jim Blandy :jimb]

I can reproduce this in Shredder nightly builds:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b5pre) Gecko/20090518 Shredder/3.0b3pre

When I Select "Tools" > "Message Filters...", select a filter, and then press the "Edit..." button, the filter editing dialog box has the lower section for actions, but no rule section.

I've looked at bug 362539, but there are no files in /tmp.

I'll attach a screen shot.

Comment 5

[Jim Blandy :jimb]

Attachment: Snapshot of filter editing dialog box without rules

Comment 6

[Jim Blandy :jimb]

Ah!  The problem is that the dialog box has been made too small!  This has nothing to do with multiple accounts, and the list of all filters is fine, so I've filed it separately: bug 494039

Comment 7

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Comment 0 seems to be describing the lack of filter names to select and then click Edit, rather than the lack of rules after clicking Edit.

Comment 8

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

laura could you share your msgFilter.dat file with us ?

Comment 9

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO due to lack of response to last question. If you feel this change was in error, please respond to this bug with your reasosn why.