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RealRaven2000 / FiltaQuilla

Adds many new mail filter actions to Thunderbird
http://quickfilters.quickfolders.org/filtaquilla.html
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TB78: Where are inherited properties? #80

Open peci1 opened 3 years ago

peci1 commented 3 years ago

Thanks really much for the 78 update! I just haven't found yet the place where I could set the inherited folder properties. Has that been ported?

RealRaven2000 commented 3 years ago

no it hasn't. I think it was al;ready broken in Thunderbird 68. Do you know what properties exactly it inherits?

peci1 commented 3 years ago

Well, I used it to move spams from one email account to my main one, because the provider doesn't offer me to turn off spam filter on that account. In older versions, this happened automatically when I checked the inherit checkbox on the spam folder.

RealRaven2000 commented 3 years ago

Well, I used it to move spams from one email account to my main one, because the provider doesn't offer me to turn off spam filter on that account. In older versions, this happened automatically when I checked the inherit checkbox on the spam folder.

I thought it was to do with subfolders - not quite sure how inheritance would work across accounts...

peci1 commented 3 years ago

It did work well - I set the filter with Folder name rule on the secondary account and instructed it to move all mail to spam folder in a different account... The problem was that no mail was automatically downloaded to the secondary spam folder, only to the secondary inbox.

RealRaven2000 commented 3 years ago

It did work well - I set the filter with Folder name rule on the secondary account and instructed it to move all mail to spam folder in a different account... The problem was that no mail was automatically downloaded to the secondary spam folder, only to the secondary inbox.

Still don't fully understand it. where is the filter (normally in an inbox). Spam folders are per account, so are the filters, not sure how inheritance would work across accounts [I thought it only affected subfolders].

peci1 commented 3 years ago

Okay, forget about the move action. That's not important here. It just seems to me that TB doesn't run filters on messages received in the spam folder - unless I check the Inheritance button.

peci1 commented 3 years ago

Searching a little bit more - was this feature the UI for mail.server.default.applyIncomingFilters ? It seems to me that it was a little more because the pref works account-wide and not folder-wise.

TuggyNE commented 3 years ago

The original implementation was described in https://web.archive.org/web/20190210224226/http://www.mesquilla.net/mesquillacom/2009/11/06/inherited-folder-properties-revisited/index.html. I don't know when it broke, though.

RealRaven2000 commented 3 years ago

The original implementation was described in https://web.archive.org/web/20190210224226/http://www.mesquilla.net/mesquillacom/2009/11/06/inherited-folder-properties-revisited/index.html. I don't know when it broke, though.

Probably with Thunderbird 78, as it's not supported by web extension APIs, and I had to cut my losses to at least convert all bindings (also deprecated for years but removed with 78) to script to make is somewhat work as an experimental mail extension.