Re: Thunderbird 0.8 and Filters

[Joost Witteveen <joostje@iliana.nl>]

Joost Witteveen wrote:

> Ed Sutherland wrote:
>
> > Alexander Sack wrote:
> >
> > > Ed Sutherland wrote:
> > >
> > > > What's happened to filters in mozilla-thunderbird 0.8? The menu
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I have no problems running filters etc.. Anyone having filter 
> > > problems too, please attach more info to: bug #272954.
> > The problem is that when Thunderbird 0.8 included the one local 
> > folder choice, they disabled the ability to create filters based on a 
> > message. (You can still create a filter by hand and it will work, but 
> > they ability to create filters based on a selected message no longer 
> > works.)
> >
> > The workaround is to create another account, don't choose the global 
> > inbox and then the create filter based on message works. This is like 
> > the time the mozilla folks dropped postscript printing support fo 
> > xprint, angering a huge portion of the users. I hope the filter 
> > feature returns in the next release.
>
>
> OK.
> I just tested yesterdays nightly (30 sept), and it still had the feature
> (not able to create filter from message, able to click "run filters on 
> folder", but doesn't work).


I just downloaded the image from
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/2004-10-27-05-0.9/thunderbird-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
and the `feature' has been removed. I can choose `create filter from 
message', and "run filters on folder" seems to work too now.

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