66771 - No method for filtering all email from account to specific mailbox

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Ole Gjerde]

Ie, Sending all email from a specific account to a folder.
Seth Spitzer suggested that currently you can filter on just @, but there really
should be a more specific filter for this purpose.

Comment 1

[scottputterman]

reassigning to naving

Comment 2

[Vaclav Dvorak]

You mean all mail _for_ an account, right? I don't think we need a special
"always" criteria - you can just leave the filter as it is by default: Subject
contains "" (empty string). Or does that not work? I suggest WONTFIXing this.

Or did I misunderstand?

Comment 3

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

mass re-assign.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 208531 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

re: comment 2: no, [Subject contains ""] does not work.
I've seen this issue requested a few times in the newsgroups, too.

Comment 6

[Doug Wright]

*** Bug 262185 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Ger Teunis]

I confirm/vote. I think this might be important in combination with the upcoming
Autoreply, forward and Bounce filter actions.
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11034)

Comment 8

[Ger Teunis]

This request is a bit late, sorry for that.

Comment 9

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

I think this will also be useful for things like creating virtual folders that are the union of several folders, w/o any search criteria. This is a work in progress - it just occurred to me that it's all wrong, in the sense that I need to change search terms to allow for an ALL criteria, instead of making it a property on the filter.

Comment 10

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: proposed fix

this adds a match all item for the filter editor, and the virtual folder search terms (but not for views or standard search, where it's not so meaningful).

Comment 11

[Scott MacGregor]

Comment on attachment 223796 [details] [diff] [review]
proposed fix

I think there are some dump statements in the patch we can get rid of.

This should be really useful!

Comment 12

[David :Bienvenu]

fixed on trunk. I've also checked in the equivalent seamonkey changes so that seamonkey won't be broken.

Comment 13

[David :Bienvenu]

fixed on 1.8 branch

Comment 14

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

1) in 1.8_Branch the searchTermOverlay.dtd patch isn't checked in (forgotten)

2) the filter editor is broken:

2.1 Everytimes you select "Match all messages" and switch back to "Match all/any of the following">, a new rules line will be listed. This rules line seems to be empty and nothing can be selected in the dropdowns.

2.2 Clicking "-" to delete the empty rules line deletes ANOTHER (the above) rules line!

Comment 15

[David :Bienvenu]

1) is fixed. I'll try to figure out 2) today

Comment 16

[David :Bienvenu]

Attachment: fix for empty rows getting added switching from match all

Comment 17

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

David, your fix for searchTermsOverlay.js seems to be working. Thanks

Comment 18

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

Comment on attachment 224208 [details] [diff] [review]
fix for empty rows getting added switching from match all

sr=sspitzer (acting super reviewer while mscott is on vacation)

Comment 19

[David :Bienvenu]

searchTermOverlay.js patch checked into both trunk and branch. re-resolving.

Comment 20

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

Sorry David, but I've to reopen this bug again...

In Thunderbird open "Edit > Find > Search Addresses". The dialog includes the new "Match all messages" entity/option. If this option would make sense in this dialog, we would need a second/different entity "Match all addresses". But I believe the option "Match all ..." doesn't make any sense in the search addresses dialog. Nobody needs to find all addresses...

Comment 21

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

Attachment: Screenshot demonstrating the problem

Comment 22

[David :Bienvenu]

Alexander, can you open a new, different bug for that regression? Thx.

Comment 23

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

Created bug 340489