889988 - Message filters do not catch all applicable messages first time run

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Filters, defect)

Description

[Greywolf]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130206152201

Steps to reproduce:

[Platform:  Fedora Core 16 (64-bit)]

Mailbox has a large number of messages in it (>10,000).

Created a (bunch of) filter(s)
Ran each one individually.
These filters mostly do not perform any action on a message except to tag it for visibility and/or future action.

Example:
  Match All of the following:

    Subject | begins with | Backup: AND
    Subject | ends with | ly (log) AND
    Tags | is empty

Perform the following actions:

   Tag | 7 EXP7

[I'm the IT department, and my boss chews off more of my arm every time I fail to catch critical user problem messages, so I am attempting to avert disaster by making the important messages easier to see thru the noise, and to make transient messages a little more easy to wipe out on a regular basis.]


Actual results:

Some messages which should have been affected (tagged) by the filter(s) in question were not.  I had to re-run the filter quite a few times before all applicable messages got tagged.  Mostly it fails to tag messages whose headers are not in the scope of the header window.


Expected results:

It should have caught and tagged them all on the first run.

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Greywolf, we need testcase messages to analyse this, pls remove/replace sensitive data from msg source and "add an attachment" above

> Mostly it fails to tag messages whose
> headers are not in the scope of the header window.

Can you explain what you mean here, or add screenshots?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

sorry to close, but needs more info.