User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 would be ideal & save us quite some time not to have to move manually to archived folders the emails coming from the same people and/or sent to people we have correspondence with on a regular basis. The way filters currently works is only fine for emails we can afford to postpone an answer to or when we can attribute working time with a given set of filtered message however would it be possible to design a different type of filter (?) so that: - email address(es) of a contact could be associated with his/her archive folder. - from the inbox(es), the user could activate this specific "filter" (not all of them) only when the has handled the content of the email (by right clicking on the specific email to be archived for instance) instead of manually having to go down the archive folders every single time. - from the sent-box(es) (rather than from the local folders), implement the association between one contact & one specific archive folder either as above (by right clicking) or automatically for any email entering the sent-box. - when emails are cced or sent to several addresses, either storing the message in the first contact archive folder and/or placing a shortcut to other archive folders associated with the other contact details. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: NA Actual Results: NA Expected Results: see details NA

Duping this to a bug that covers the most of what's being asked for. (In reply to comment #0) > - from the inbox(es), the user could activate this specific "filter" (not all > of them) only when the has handled the content of the email (by right clicking > on the specific email to be archived for instance) instead of manually having > to go down the archive folders every single time. One possible way to do what you're trying to with the current software: create a filter like this: If (Match All) Sender, is, correspondent@wherever.com Status, is, Replied Move to, Folder Leave this filter enabled. It should never trigger for arriving mail because that mail hasn't been replied to. After you've replied to the message, select Tools | Run Filters On Folder and the message in the Inbox will be filtered where you want. This obviously has limitations -- it only handles messages that have been replied to, and you need to create a filter for each of the people you're dealing with; and of course, it doesn't file the sent message. > - from the sent-box(es) (rather than from the local folders), implement the > association between one contact & one specific archive folder either as above > (by right clicking) or automatically for any email entering the sent-box. Bug 11039 / bug 180196 are about filtering on sent mail. If there were a way to associate a folder with an address, the context menu's Move To could incorporate that folder in its list -- see bug 350962 comment 3. There is a new feature in TB 2.0 to allow Sent messages to be filed in the same folder as the original message. That's not exactly what you're looking for, of course... > - when emails are cced or sent to several addresses, either storing the > message in the first contact archive folder and/or placing a shortcut to > other archive folders associated with the other contact details. I don't think shortcuts would end up being useful. Virtual (saved-search) folders might accomplish some of what you're trying to do. See also bug 285929, bug 240123, bug 65135. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171458 ***

Following up on Mike's feedback and the apparent limitations which have been pointed out: it only handles messages that have been replied to, and need to create a filter for each of the people we're dealing with; and it doesn't file the sent message. I’d better create at least one filter for every contact than moving their emails manually every single time ;) so that it is a win situation and the other apparent limitations can be handled by creating another filter such as in the in-boxes If (Match All) Sender, is, correspondent@wherever.com Status, is, flagged Move to, Folder in the sent-boxe If (Match All) Sender, is, correspondent@wherever.com Status, is, replied Move to, Folder Too bad we have to create a new filter for every single box instead of going for something like if Sender, is, correspondent@wherever.com or if Sender, is, correspondent@somewherelse.com Apply to mail box A If Status, is, flagged or If Status, is, replied Move to, Folder Appy to mail box sent If Status, is, sent Move to, Folder I never saw any use of "Flagged" before and maybe "Flagged" could be replaced by a more explicit label but it seems that every thing was there to do what I was looking for... just waiting to be seen and twisted just a bit... Sorry for not having seen it before and many thanks for your answers. For the shortcuts I won't argue even if it would be much easier for me because of the way my mind is organized but these things can be bent as well... :)