Procedure: I have one mail account and two news accounts (+ local folders). I can create filters for my mail just fine, but when I pull down the list and try to create a new filter for either newsgroup account, nothing happens. Worse, the OK button stops working. Clicking these buttons fills my JS console up with messages like this: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIRDFResource.GetDelegate]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://messenger/content/FilterListDialog.js :: currentFilterList :: line 140" data: no] Build: 2001060409 Win98

PC/Win98 (D'oh.) 4xp.

We don't even support news filters in 6.0 or current release ... The commercial builds don't even show the news accounts anywhere in the filter ui: Not in the main filter dialog or filter rules as a target folder possibility. So I'm not sure how you're even getting to the news accounts. Unless it's some mutant profile from a long time ago? Unless it's a mozilla only thing.

Even if I migrate a 4.x profile with news filters, we still don't show news accounts in filter ui.

When I pull down the list in the build mentioned previously, both my news accounts are there, and I've created both in this build (due to an accidental deleting of a data file in my Users50 directory). If it's an old profile, they should be stripped on load anyway. Why wouldn't we have news filters, though? That's one of the major functionalities I expect from a fully-featured newsreader, and the same is true for all other Netscape users. Outlook Express supports news filters, so there is competition involved, too. If there's a bug regarding news filter support, lead me to it so I can vote for it - this is enough to change a customer's decision between NS and IE.

News filters: see bug 17483, 16913.

I just tried this with jun5 trunk build -- news accts are appearing in filters. So this is trunk only, not happening in the 0.9.1 branch. I don't know when this started in the trunk -- I don't recall seeing it last week, but will go back and double-check.

FYI -- with the may31 trunk commericial build (the day before we branched), I cannot reproduce the news accounts showing in the filters scope dialog. This news acct problem was introduced in the trunk after may31.

adding nsbeta1 keyword since we need to correct this (so as not to see News accounts in filter ui) on the trunk before RTM.

Laurel, do you mean that the newsaccounts shouldn't appear or that news-filtering should magically work?

News accounts should not appear.

Changing summary

removing 4xp keyword

I debugged this this evening and figured out the following: The code in nsAccountManagerDS.cpp to decide whether an account supports filtering (the SupportsFilters rule) is not getting called at all when called from FilterListDialog.xul I'm trying to understand why, although I don't know much about RDF/templates so I may have missed something obvious.

fall out from bug #70258. it's a simple fix, I'll attach the patch. we should get this into 0.9.1 and the trunk.

fall out from #79258, not #70258

I don't think this is an 0.9.1 stopper (if I'm reading this right, choosing an news filter prevents the dialog from being closed and that's the only bad thing that happens). Maybe 0.9.2

0.9.2 is fine with me. this has sr=bienvenu I'll get it in the trunk.

r=hwaara with a fair amount of sadness (I wanted to investigate and fix this bug)

a= asa@mozilla.org for checkin to the trunk. (on behalf of drivers)

fixed.

Verified 2001060804 Win98.

I need to check this on the trunk on all platforms, please don't mark verified.

setting back to FIXED

New accounts no longer showing in "filters for:"/scope dropdown list. OK using june14 commercial trunk builds, win98, mac OS 9.0, linux rh6.2