535879 - filters: add "reply-to" header to the "all addresses" ("from, to, cc or bcc") filter search term

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[[e-mail]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2b6pre) Gecko/20091218 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6b6pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7pre) Gecko/20091218 Shredder/3.0.1pre

can the "from, to, cc or bcc" match rule for message filters also be extended to include the "reply-to" field?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
i try to make a rule to filter bugreports from launchpad to a folder, and the only distinct parts of the mails are either

a) match in title "[Bug "
b) all bugs have reply-to [e-mail] where xxx is the bug number

Comment 1

[Kent James (:rkent)]

Your summary and comment 0 are conflicting about your specific request. The summary is a dupe of bug 212619. The comment is a request to extend the "All addresses" search term. This needs to be narrowed down somehow.

If you just want to solve you particular use case, look at the customize option mentioned some in bug 212619.

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

thank you kent for replying and sorry if my subject was conflicting.
i marked the bugreport as a feature request and described it too

i was rather reporting this bug as a request for enhancement, but i can live with a custom rule too :)

Comment 3

[:aceman]

Fixing the summary.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

confirming: Having Reply-to in AllAddresses search term makes a lot of sense, because it is semantically equivalent with from: it's the header to which you will write your reply, so when searching for all conversation with certain person, you do want to find those mails that have person in reply-to header.

Comment 7

[Daniel Kauffman]

I too would like a filter to "match any address" using From, To, CC, Reply-To and any other address fields that may be lurking in some obscure RFC.

#212619 and #600928 are marked as dependencies but I don't see how either of these would block this in current Thunderbird.

A partial work-around is for me to create two filters for every address match, one filter using "From, To, CC" and one filter using "Reply-to". However, this doubles the size of the filter, and becomes unmanageable if matching on more than a few addresses. For example, some of my filters have more than fifty addresses, this would double the filter size.

See also #1755563 for a related discussion about how the issue is compounded when filtering by domain name.