Rich Burroughs wrote:
Andrew Choens wrote: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.
> 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
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
