531483 - let filters apply to headers in source code of emails

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 184490

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[SPENCE]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: alllet filters read 

ie: be able to search for amadis.com in received from lined in source code headers.

This url accounts for over 85% of spam at this location.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.can not find a way to easily look for that phrase embedded in email headers.
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
ditto

Expected Results:  
ditto

My groups responsibility is emergency communications for Dept of Navy and DHS SHARES HF. Spam removal is critical during emergencys. During KATRINA spam caused 2 hour delay in very urgent communications.

Comment 1

[Kent James (:rkent)]

Have tried setting Received as a custom header in the search dialog? That works for me for incoming messages. For filters after-the-fact (Run Now or Manual) there are issues (bug 184490) but there is a workaround available (add "received" to your preference "mailnews.customDBHeaders". You'll need to rebuild any existing folder if you want this then to work on existing messages, as that preference only affects new or reindexed messages.) Making this workaround happen by default is bug 363238.

I would be tempted to dup this bug to bug 184490, since the STR mentions "search" rather than "filter".

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reporter emila address is dead so may as well dupe