49049 - Filter with 'Begins With' does not work

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect, P1)

Description

[Peter Janes]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20000815
BuildID:    2000081505

If a filter is set to match the beginning of a field (with 'Begins With'), it
will not work.  The same filter with 'Contains' does work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a filter with 'Subject' 'Begins With' field text 'Test', and any
action (e.g. Delete).
2. Ensure it is enabled.
3. Send a message to yourself matching the filter, e.g. 'Testing e-mail' as the
subject.

Actual Results:  No action is taken; it's as if the rule is being ignored or the
pattern is not matching.

Expected Results:  Should have taken the action defined in the filter rule.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

d'uh, I see the problem. One line fix.

Comment 2

[David :Bienvenu]

marking p1 because I have a fix in hand and don't want the priority lowered.

Comment 3

[John Morrison]

Heh. One of the reasons I was not using seamonkey mail fulltime is that most
of my filters are 'begins with'. I just figured all this time that all filters
were broken, so I continued to use 4.x to get the right folder sorting.
(Now, if only the ability to match on 'x-resent-from', etc. had not been cut).

Comment 4

[lchiang]

+ per mail triage

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

fixed

Comment 6

[laurel]

OK using aug31 commercial build, linux rh6.0, NT 4.0 and mac OS 9.0