563486 - Too many terms in message filter, unintelligible error message

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Doug Hockin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 3.0.4

If you put too many terms in a message filter you get an unintelligible error message. Something about having an invalid term in your search expression. This message should be changed to say something like "Too many terms in your message filter".


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Repeatedly add terms to a message filter until you get the error message
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
Get message about "an invalid term in search expression".


Expected Results:  
Message "Too many terms in your message filter."

Sorry if I'm missing some of the precise details. I have only a dialup connection at home and bugzilla has become unusable there because it takes so long to load. My guess is it's become bloated with JavaScript.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Can you try to add the proper error you are getting ? can you share you msgfilter.dat file with us so we have a testcase ?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Doug?  Do you still see this problem?

(In reply to Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul] from comment #1)
> Can you try to add the proper error you are getting ? can you share you
> msgfilter.dat file with us so we have a testcase ?

Comment 3

[Doug Hockin]

I'm running TB 5.0. and just retested and was unable to reproduce that problem after adding a very large number of entries to my largest filter. It used to be very easy for me to reproduce. Seems fixed to me.