78858 - [RFE] ability to store filters on IMAP

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Filters, enhancement)

Description

[Garth Wallace]

This would allow the user to set up a folder on his IMAP account for storing 
mail and news filters, and sync them with locally stored filters. It would be 
very useful in some situations to be able to keep the same filters no matter 
where you connect from.

The IMAP APPEND command could be used for storing the filters on the IMAP 
server.

Comment 1

[Keyser Sose]

Marking NEW.

Comment 2

[kevin arnold]

Could this enhancement request be expanded to allow the address book and other
mail/news preferences to be stored on the IMAP server or should that be entered
as a seperate RFE?

Comment 3

[Garth Wallace]

That would be a separate RFE.

Comment 4

[scottputterman]

reassigning to naving

Comment 5

[Dirk O. Brückner]

*** Bug 151797 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Garth Wallace]

*** Bug 129084 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Vaclav Dvorak]

*** Bug 179355 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Malte Geierhos]

Is there anyone who is already working on that ???
its really annoying, filters are working very well, 
but changing computers, (Laptop, Ws[1-10] ) and always have to rewrite the
filters makes the concept of Imap a little bit unusable for ppl with a lot of
Mail Traffic. 

Comment 9

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

mass re-assign.

Comment 10

[Helge Hielscher]

a)How is this bug related to bug 79525: Support Sieve?
b)Does it include storing the filters that are used for virtual folders?

Comment 11

[Felicia Berryman]

See my comments at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160523

http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html says:
BASE includes a full version of the HSQL database engine, storing data in XML
files.

Is it possible to use HSQL to create an XML based junk mail filter that you can store on IMAP?

Comment 13

[Darren Kenny]

As a possibly simply starting point, there is a nice piece of integration done
by the "Nostalgy" add-on (http://alain.frisch.fr/soft_mozilla.html) which does
two things:

1) From the preferences dialog, it allows you to send a formatted e-mail with the Nostalgy Rules in it.

2) When viewing such an e-mail, you can import the rules from that e-mail using a button that appears in the e-mail information area. 

I've attached two screenshots that show this. 

This would probably be a relatively simply and effective mechanism to start with...

Comment 14

[Darren Kenny]

Attachment: Nostalgy Preferences Dialog

Comment 15

[Darren Kenny]

Attachment: Nostalgy Import From E-Mail Button

Comment 21

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

xref bug 337330 and RFC 5464 for a possible implementation. Reading RFC 5466 leads me to believe that it's designed more for saved searches instead of filters.