Closed Bug 114838 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Message Filters are not remembered (Lost) accross sessions (NT-only?).

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Filters, defect)

x86
Windows NT
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: Peter, Assigned: naving)

References

Details

(Keywords: dataloss)

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011211 Message Filters are not remembered accross sessions (e.g., if xxx, label yyy)
This makes the cool new "labels" feature *much* less useful :(
Current commercial trunk builds working okay. New and old filters remembered, editable and filters fire. Maybe mozilla only. If not, any other details for reproducing would be appreciated.
using build 2001-12-12-03, imap account, winNT: Reproduce: - load mozilla mail (incl q-launch) - edit - message filters - new - create filter: "Mozilla Mail", sender contains mozilla, label msg = computers (=#3), click OK, click "X" to close msg filters dialoge. - close mozilla (incl. quick launch) - reload mozilla Expected results: - edit - Message Filters shows the "Mozilla Mail" filter. Actual Results: - edit - Message Filters is empty :(
BTW. I am trying this with a profile I created yesterday!!! Only thing, I copied my old mail, bookmarks and AB's over to my new profile (I hate having to do all that).
I can't reproduce using a new profile on yesterday's commercial trunk.
I'm still getting this on build 2001-12-13. [so what?] The filter is *not* lost if you *don't* close the quicklaunch icon! (but nobody leaves it running overnight!!!) [/so what?]
Summary: Message Filters are not remembered accross sessions (e.g., if xxx, label yyy) → Message Filters are not remembered accross sessions.
*** Bug 120241 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I just tested this again using build 2002-02-02, winNT and a NEW profile. -> The filtes are still lost when exiting Mozilla! :( :( :( :( ;) :(
I still do not see this. Using feb04 commercial build, win98: I tried following the exact steps for the failure/Test2 scenario described in bug 120241 -- New profile, quicklaunch enabled, entered filters, exited Netscape,then exited quicklaunch icon. Next launch filter(s) still there.
I just tried it again separately with BOTH build 2002-02-02 and milestone 0.9.8 on winNT (not win98!). I created a NEW profile EACH time. Here are the steps I took: 0. completely exited mozilla (including QuickLaunch <- right-click, exit) 1. uninstall previous install (control panel/add-remove/...) 2. deleted all remaining files from Mozilla directory (e.g., \plugins) 3. deleted all mo*.* files fom C:\winnt\ (e.g., mozver.dat) 4. run installer (mozilla-win32-installer-sea.exe), "load quicklaunch" selected! 5. Immediately after (during) install, created a "TEST" profile. 6. set up a filter (if subj. contains "bla", then label=important) 7. send a test mail to self (is labelled OK upon receipt). 8. exit mozilla (leave QuickLaunch running). 9. Reload Mozilla - Filter is still there. :) 10. Exit Mozilla AND exit QuickLaunch. 11. Reload Mozilla - Filter is gone!!! :( Could there be a problem with my registry.dat? Is it winNT? Is my winNT registry corrupted? Yikes! This makes filters and labels useless! :(
The filters are remembered on my PC at home, which is win98. At work I have winNT, and the filters are always lost (new install, new profile). Unfortunately, I need the filters to function at work much more urgently - and I imagine that more work PC's are winNT (instead of win98).
Summary: Message Filters are not remembered accross sessions. → Message Filters are not remembered (Lost) accross sessions (NT-only?).
WFM. Never had a problem with filters being lost unless the reason for mozilla and quicklaunch closing was a crash. (WinNT/2K)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
I finally got Mozilla to *not loose* my filters on winNT by opening the (almost) empty rules.dat and pasting *one* filter I had created on my win98 PC. That seemed to make the filters stick. So then I recreated all my other filters and exited mozilla (incl. Q-launch). After restarting, the filters were still ther - *yeah* :-D Now to see if the filters are still there tomorrow - after I repoot my winNT PC...
marking verified worksforme.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
I am having a similar problem with MailNews filters filters been lost with the Beos version: Mozilla/5.0 (BeOS; U; BeOS BePC; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021128. Since the beos versions do not have the quicklaunch feature the filters are lost every time Mozilla is closed then reopened. I recommend for this bug to be reopened. I also have Windows NT4 and Mozilla1.2.1 installed on it. I will test it with new filters and see if it is happenning with this version then report back here.
I just tested on NT4 and in Mozilla1.2.1 this bug seems to be fixed. Filters are retained if quicklaunch is set or not but this bug is still occuring with the Beos Mozilla version 1.2.
It is a long time now since I made my last comment and the bug is still present in the latest Mozilla versions for beos. It is surely time someone to verify or not with the latest versions of Mozilla for beos or other.
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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