594057 - Message Filter Organization Unwieldy/Impossible

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 373075

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Frederick Sieber]

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If you have a lot of Filters, it is hard to find the one you want.  The only organization option is a klutzy move inidvidual filter up and down in the list.  Now it scrolls incorrectly when you have reached the end of screen on move up/down which terribly slows the process of moving Filters, which was already unwieldy.  I used to used Alt-D with keyboard repeat to manually sort the filters.  There should at least be a button for sorting the filters by name.  I don't much care about order or executing the rules because collisions are rare.  But being unable to organize messages in any way efficiently greatly reduces the value of the whole feature.   There has been a request to have sort capability on the filters for SIX YEARS! 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have lots of filters
2. Tools, Message Filters
3. Try to find the one you want - Good Luck
4. Try to use klutzy move single filter up/down in list, in order to sort the list manually.
5. After have moved the message to bottom of screen, extraneous incorrect scrolling action, greatly slows your sorting process to the point where decide to forget it.