Closed Bug 319954 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Ability to filter outgoing messages

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 11039

People

(Reporter: dsmart, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 I am a recent Eudora Pro 6 (Paid mode) refugee and I have just spent the better part of the day migrating over nine years of emails to TB 1.5RC3. While I was duplicating my filters, I realized that the TB filters only worked on incoming mails, not outgoing like in Eudora Pro. Thats highly restrictive. If filters would work on outgoing mails, then a filter could be made to add replies to the originating folder or wherever. e.g. In this shot from a EudoraPro filter, any message sent to or replied from that contains webmaster@3000ad.com, will be saved in the 'Webmaster' folder. http://www.3000ad.com/temp/tb301084.png Also, when To and From messages are in the same folder, the From messages are in italics. This helps to differentiate them from each other. So, I think that if the filters were extended to support From messages. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just try to create a filter for outgoing messages. Actual Results: You cannot create a filter for outgoing messages. Expected Results: When an account is created, it has its own Inbox/Sent folders. However, as a game developer, I manage a lot of people and thus have various folders in Local Folders. So, when an email comes in from someone and goes into the inbox, it is then filtered into the appropriate sub-folder in Local Folders. However, when you reply, instead of it going back into the sub-folder that is used for messages with that person, it goes into the Sent box and has to be manually moved. e.g. # janedoe@anywhere.com\Inbox janedoe@anywhere.com\Sent # Local Folders\Sent Local Folders\John # When emails from John come in, they are filtered and sent (correctly) into Local Folders\John. However, when you reply to John, there is no way to filter your message so that the reply goes back into Local Folders\John, thereby preserving a conversation thread. Instead, the message goes into janedoe@anywhere.com\Sent and you have to manually move it to Local Folders\John
I think this is absolutely vital to those of us who have - for years - used other email software and found the ability to filter outgoing messages critical to our day to day operations.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11039 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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