Filtering on TO

[Alycat]

I have been using an additional address book as a sort of "group" for filters, I just create an additional address book, put a list of people I want to filter in there, then set up a filter with Sender...is in my address book, and it works well for filtering of incoming mail.

To try and get around the lack of outgoing filters I have set TBird up to BCC my address and the idea was then then to test the TO, but I can't seem to test TO against an address book in a filter - anyone got any better ideas or a way around this problem, or how to get around the lack of outgoing filters in general (just a "put replied mail in same folder as mail" would be sufficient)

[tanstaafl]

0.6 provides the capability to test whether a address is in or not in a specific address book.

[Alycat]

How can I set that up? I seem to be only able to test if the sender is in an address book.

[tanstaafl]

Interesting. If I select "To" instead of "Sender" I get a smaller comparison list.

1. Create a filter that tests whether the sender is in the address book, and look at the "condition" line in msgFilterRules.dat in your profile using an editor.

2. Create a filter that tests the TO and takes whatever action you want.

3. Edit the second filter to use a condition like the first filter had, but replace "from" with "to". i.e. replace its condition line with something like condition="OR (to,is in ab,moz-abmdbdirectory://abook.mab)"

I have no idea if that will work, but its possible thunderbird will process that rule even though it doesn't let you create it using the GUI. I'd backup my profile before trying it.

[Alycat]

Thanks for the reply. I set up a filter as you suggested but it seems TBird just doesn't want to filter on TO and address books. Not having rules on sent items is a pain.

[nadworks]

I just switched from EUDORA to Thunderbird over the weekend - what a drag. But I figured TB's pros outweighing E's cons. Especially the html editability in TB.

Having said that, <b>the one major feature I am indeed also missing in TB is being able to apply filters to sent messages, which EUDORA handles as a no-brainer.</b>

[Old Ausdilecce]

Lack of outgoing filters is one of the reasons why I created the ChangeFromFcc on Compose extension.

Read about it here -> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=418381

With this extension, you will NOT need to BCC yourself and deal with the filter nightmare that is then required...
I tried that route too, before I created the extension..

Note that the devs are working on outgoing filters but they will not be available for some time..

Cheers

[Alycat]

LOL, I must still be subscribed to this thread! just got an email about this. I can't believe it has been two years since I was trying to get some kind of filtering on sent emails. I tried about half a dozen different programs, including TB twice - eventually gave up and spent a month or two of spare time and wrote my own, and yes it has filtering on sent emails!

[azibi]

i don't see the point why only have the 'is in my address book' condition available for only some headers, and not at all at custom headers...

(i use a catchall and this functionality for the 'To:' header would be really usefull)

[LoudNoise]

You are replying to an elderly thread (2006). Locking. Please start a new thread fully describing the problem.