614722 - Insufficient Information in Filter Save Dialog / Edit Panel

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Rufus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 SeaMonkey/2.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 SeaMonkey/2.0.10

I get this dialog when trying to update Edit/Save my Account Mail Filters -

"This filter cannot be saved because some search terms are invalid in the current context."

But I get no indication of exactly *what* is "invalid".  If I attempt to save the filter three times the update is apparently saved on the third attempt. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select Mail/News->MAnage Message Filters->select a Filter to Edit->Edit
2. Not being given any idea of what the offending entry is...???
Actual Results:  
Dialog appears containing the following text upon selecting Save:

"This filter cannot be saved because some search terms are invalid in the current context."

Expected Results:  
I would have expected that Edit would have shown me exactly what the "error" was so I could correct it - instead it just re-displays my same entries within the Edit pane.  Then, after repeated selections of Save it appears to save the entries in the pane on the third selection of Save - whatever "error" included.

I'm using the SM Modern theme - can't stand the Default one.

Using SM 2.0.10 on both an Intel 15" MacBook Pro and 24" Intel iMac; same issue on both machines.

Comment 1

[Phoenix]

Is this still reproducible with latest build?
Can you provide filter example?

Comment 2

[Rufus]

Yes - this seems to work ok now for me with SM 2.6.1 Mac.  I have a feeling the offending characters were things like ~, <, >, @, etc.  But in editing and saving Fliters after upgrade from 2.0.14 to 2.6.1 I no longer see this.

However - I do note that in SM 2.6.1 the Manage Filters panel now does not scale/resize properly in the SM Modern Theme.  It is possible to drag the pane smaller and make the buttons disappear.  This is a new bug.

Comment 3

[Ian Neal]

(In reply to Rufus from comment #2)
> However - I do note that in SM 2.6.1 the Manage Filters panel now does not
> scale/resize properly in the SM Modern Theme.  It is possible to drag the
> pane smaller and make the buttons disappear.  This is a new bug.
If this happens on a fresh profile, then, after making sure there is not an existing bug, please log a new bug for it on bugzilla. Thanks.