Comments on: Thunderbird Run Now Filters Fail on Custom Headers in IMAP Messages

By: Peter Ridge

Peter Ridge — Tue, 24 May 2011 00:15:59 +0000

@Paul: Yeah, good caveat. Thanks for the feedback, Paul.

By: Paul "TBBle" Hampson

Paul "TBBle" Hampson — Mon, 23 May 2011 08:14:51 +0000

I’ve been trying to use this workaround without success for a while.

Turns out, my Thunderbird (Icedove) Offline Settings had “synchronise the most recent 2 weeks” and “Don’t download messages larger than 50kB” set. I don’t remember setting them, but I can’t rule it out…

So just something to watch out for if you’re not getting the results you expect from manual filtering with the given workaround.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 22:45:57 +0000

yep, still an issue with Thunderbird 3.1.9

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:09:31 +0000

The whole point of IMAP folders is to take advantage of remote mail storage. If I have to download the messages “for offline use”, I might as well use POP. My IMAP folders have 2 to 12 THOUSAND messages in them. This is hundreds of megabytes. While I can and DO appreciate a work-around, I am angry that this kind of gross negligence made it through QA and still is not fixed in the latest Thunderbird.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:49:15 +0000

Thank you so much!!!

By: Ian Young

Ian Young — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:08:01 +0000

Perfect! This addressed my exact problem.

By: Peter Ridge

Peter Ridge — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:03:50 +0000

You’re welcome, Charles. Happy spam filtering!

By: Charles T

Charles T — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 05:27:31 +0000

Thanks a bunch, this really had me extremely perplexed. Custom headers are very important for my spam filtering!

By: Rado S

Rado S — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:56:07 +0000

Thanks very much, a very annoying dysfunctionality. :-/

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:49:17 +0000

Thanks for the blog post. Save me another 10 frustrating minutes of trying to get me messages filtered.