514059 - wanted: "Edit existing filter" (feature request)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 169256

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[philiptdotcom]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.20) Gecko/20081217 Firefox/2.0.0.20 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.23 (20090812)

Currently, when you right-click on an address in the From:, To: areas of a message you've received, one of the options is "Create filter from message".

Very frequently (e.g., several times every day) I wish for the option (on that same menu) to "EDIT existing filter [based on some criterion/-ia in message]".

I don't want to create a new filter for every address; I want to ADD something (virtually always a sender's address) to an EXISTING filter.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. view a received e-mail
2. right-click on a sender's (or recipient's) address
3. look at available menu options...
Actual Results:  
"Edit existing filter" (or some such) is NOT an option

Expected Results:  
I wish "Edit existing filter" (or some such) WERE an option!  :)

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Xref bug 34342

Bryan thoughts ?

Comment 2

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

I'm reading the idea as a use case where you have a "Mass Marketing" filter and you want to continually add new addresses to that filter copied from the "sender" address.  Or are you talking about being able to edit any of the filters that touched the message you are looking at?

Comment 3

[philiptdotcom]

Bryan (et al.):

Yes, the "mass marketing" filter idea is what I was thinking about (although the other idea is interesting, too...).

In particular (and I think this is the same concept you're mentioning), I have filters named, e.g., "personal", "always junk", "vendors - accept e-mail from", "personal - to read later", etc.  When I receive an e-mail from a new address, I'll typically want to assign all future e-mails from that address (or perhaps with that particular subject line, in the case of standard subjects [e.g., from e-mail lists]) to a particular filter.  Obviously, I don't want to create a new filter for every single address.

This would be particularly useful to me (and others who do the same thing I do) because I prefilter EVERYTHING into one of a few incoming folders.  My "Inbox" is basically mostly spam (and I only check it every week or two or three), because virtually every message I receive (from known senders, or based on other criteria) is immediately sent to ANOTHER folder ("!prefiltered"), which I use as my functional "Inbox".

Aloha,
-pt