Thunderbird Not Running Filters on Incoming POP

[Andrew Choens]

Cyber Source wrote:

> Im using T-Bird with the same filter your mentioning and mine works 
> fine. If your can manually run them but not automatically, make sure 
> there is a check in the enabled column.
>
> James McKenzie wrote:
>
>> Andrew Choens wrote:
>>
>>> I really do want to use Thunderbird.  It has a kind of fun feel to 
>>> it.  But, I have one problem that has to get cleared up first.  As 
>>> everyone recieving this email knows, this is a high volume list.  I 
>>> have a filter to move all of the incoming mail over to a folder 
>>> called Fedora.  The filter works fine, when I manually run the 
>>> filters, but it does NOT run when new mail is downloaded from my pop 
>>> account.  I had this with the 0.8 installed from the CD's and I'm 
>>> still experiencing it with the 0.9 rpm I downloaded from Fresh 
>>> RPMS.  Out of curiousity, I downloaded a binary from mozilla, and 
>>> got the same problem.  So, what's wrong with my set-up?  Why won't 
>>> the filters run on the incoming mail?
>>>
>>> If I can resolve this, I'll switch to Thunderbird, otherwise I guess 
>>> I'm stuck with Evolution.
>>>
>> Andrew:
>>
>> What are your qualifications for the filter?  Also, make sure that 
>> the filter is enabled or it will not do anything.
>>
>
After much searching on the internet, and reading Rich's post, I finally 
found the solution, which has made me VERY happy.  I can use 
Thunderbird.  It is however, a completely stupid set-up and I am 
planning on filing a bug with the Thunderbird developers, if someone 
hasn't beaten me to the punch.

When you make a filter you can apply it to your "local folders" OR to an 
account.  The default is to make it apply to "local folders".  But, not 
all filters get auto-run this way.  To be sure your filter will be 
automatically run, you have to assign it to an account.  This is fine, 
but poorly documented.  I don't understand why they make the 
distinction.  But, they do.