518469 - Cascaded filter rules

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Nemsak]

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Ability to create cascaded filter rules.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
The user can only create base-level filters.

Expected Results:  
Ability to create a tree of filters, where children narrow the parent's properties, ie:
Subject contains: Ticket alert
  - Sender is: [e-mail]
    - Move to folder: Sender1 Tickets
  - Sender is: [e-mail]
    - Move to folder: Sender2 Tickets
    

This should allow users to create comprehensive logical trees of rules for incoming e-mails, without having to create a new filter with mostly the same rules as do exist for one/more of existing rules, just for appending a new/other property to the rule

Comment 1

[Kent James (:rkent)]

You could accomplish this through tags, or with the custom search terms and filter action that are possible in TB3 and SM2, with custom DB properties. So you could have a first filter,

If (Subject Contains "Ticket alert") then AddTag TicketAlert

followed by a second filter

If (Tag Contains TicketAlert and Sender Is [e-mail]) then MoveTo folder Sender1Tickets.

I haven't tested this, but it should work.

Comment 2

[Peter Nemsak]

Well, that actually might work, but it's not really "centralized". Moreover, this requires multiple tags to be created beforehand and is not really intuitive.

Comment 3

[Carl Ponder]

There's no "TicketAlert" option in the list and I don't see any option for creating user defined tags.
Are you talking about editing the filters file directly?

Comment 4

[Carl Ponder]

I want a simpler form of cascading, I just want to set one "AND" case and a list of "OR" cases that bind to it.

Comment 5

[David Roy]

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