Thunderbird Email Rules
Category: Email
I really liked Thunderbird and the way I was able to have RSS feeds, email, and newsgroups all in the same program. What I didn't like was the email rules. I could not get the rules to work, except when I set them up. I like having most of my usual email filtered through email rules but was unable to make this feature work. Any suggestions?
It sounds like you got bit by the "rules don't run automatically" problem/feature in Thunderbird. I had the same problem... created a rule, tested it on the inbox and it worked great. But new emails were not getting filtered. I did some poking around and found to my shock and dismay that this is working as designed. You have to click on Tools / Run Filters on Folder, or press Alt-T then R to run the filters.
This seems incredibly stupid to me, and is the one thing that's making we want to switch back to my previous email client. Does anyone know how if there is a technique or plugin to make the rules run automatically when they hit the inbox?