Filters have to be created multiple time and the oldest have empty searchTerms

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Thunderbird Add-on: quickFilters

http://quickfilters.quickfolders.org/

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Filters have to be created multiple time and the oldest have empty searchTerms #13

Closed cbroult closed 3 years ago

cbroult commented 4 years ago

For several months I have notice that I had to regularly recreate some filters. Now I can no longer right click on Inbox > Run filters since that reports that many of my filters are failing to apply.

Saving the filters I can see that for some filters several entries exist that are empty (see cbroult@yahoo.com_2020-05-27_17-16.txt)

I have no idea as to why there is such a problem. I reckon that I have a very large amount of filters...

Please let me know how I can best help to fix that issue that seems to be related to https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=26710.

RealRaven2000 commented 4 years ago

Did you try the "troubleshooting" feature?

cbroult commented 4 years ago

Indeed I tried that button several times. Though it seems that nothing happens when I pressed it. I guess I am going to manually the JSON file and import it again to come to a clean state and monitor my filter list. If the issue is still present I am going to comment again on that ticket.

cbroult commented 4 years ago

I decided to start from scratch and recreate my filters one by one. Now I end up in a similar situation where a lot of searchTerms in the exported JSON are empty (cbroult@yahoo.com_2020-06-07_13-03.cleaned.json.txt) which causes a Run Filters on my Inbox to report multiple failures.

Using a script I removed the filters with empty searchTerms and after removing all the filters and importing the cleaned filters (cbroult@yahoo.com_2020-06-07_13-03.json.txt) then Run Filters is successful.

What should I be doing to help troubleshoot that issue?

RealRaven2000 commented 4 years ago

if you can reproduce creating a filter with empty conditions please make a step by step description here (with screenshots).

Which quickFilter template are you using to create the filter? Is it created on "move mail" with active quickFilters assistant, or "after the fact" (by right-clicking an email that is already in a non-Inbox folder and using "quickFilters: create filter from message"):
What kind of search conditions are failing?
Are the condition values a problem? (e.g. name or email address with diacritics / umlauts / non-ASCII characters
What is your default action for the filter?
do you use non-standard search conditions (e.g. the ones provided by FiltaQuilla)?

RealRaven2000 commented 3 years ago

Should I leave this issue open or close it? It still looks like it might be cause by a corrupted profile... A developer friend of mine said he recreates a fresh profile for all his production mail every year; I only repair folders from time to time. It doesn't seem like this is easily reproducible and almost certainly not fixable in the quickFilters codebase. So it is very very likely a Thundebird bug - or a whole group of bugs.

RealRaven2000 commented 1 year ago

I decided to start from scratch and recreate my filters one by one. Now I end up in a similar situation where a lot of searchTerms in the exported JSON are empty (cbroult@yahoo.com_2020-06-07_13-03.cleaned.json.txt) which causes a Run Filters on my Inbox to report multiple failures.

I wonder if something happened with the copy terms routine to fail. If you still use quickFIlt4ers, check the latest version and the error console (Ctrl+Shift+J) after creating a filter and when exporting.