Thunderbird Not Running Filters on Incoming POP

[Andrew Choens]

Rich Burroughs wrote:

> Andrew Choens wrote:
>  > 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.
>
>
> I had the same problem, that's why I mentioned it :) I don't 
> understand the reasoning behind the design either, but the filters did 
> not execute on the incoming mail when I used the default "local 
> folders" setting. When I found the POP account listed on the pulldown 
> menu and tried it they worked fine.
>
>
> Rich
>
>
Nearly everything else about FF is very well laid out and I really like 
the GUI.  But that one undocumented quirk is really a moneky's wrench.  
Not only is it wretched, it's important!  It seems that the FF 
developers are aware of the issue.  I found this bug, which they seem to 
think is mostly resolved, but seems to be pointing out the same problem.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263541

It appears that they did not think this bug was worth holding up the 1.0 
release for, but it is supposedly fixed in the nightly builds.  Glad 
it's "fixed" but I think it should have been fixed for 1.0.  I'm sure 
we'll be reading about this as people start reviewing TBird like they 
did FF.  I only hope it's NOT a bug on the Windows platform, since that 
will get the largest number of reviews.

--andy