886901 - promoting or copying a filter (for newsgroups, or for several mail accounts)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 229493

(Thunderbird :: Filters, defect)

Description

[fabrice.neyret]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1453.110 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Suppose a nasty guy polluting several usenet groups I read. If I make a filter from his post, it will apply only to one newsgroup. 
Similarily, I have several IMAP mail accounts, but some of the sorting filters are identical for each.


Actual results:

There is no way to copy-past or move a filter to another IMAP account or usenet level of hierarchy.


Expected results:

1: a button or menu item to edit to which account the filter applys
2: for newsgroups, a button to promote a filter from one newsgroup to higher in the hierachy or even for all groups.
3: operations for copy pasting filters through different accounts or groups.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I should think this is a duplicate. But I don't find one

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #1)
> I should think this is a duplicate. But I don't find one

Always welcome Wayne, what about this one: Bug 229493 :)

:thun,mail copy filter
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=%3Athun%2Cmail%20copy%20filter&list_id=7811933

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I was looking for something news oriented, which  bug 229493 is not. But think it's close enough. And we can reopen if a fixed bug 229493 doesn't cut it.