[Bug 220992] [NEW] Message filter ignoring front of Subject line

[Bob Kline]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

I have a filter which is supposed to look for the string "RSS sites
downloaded" at the beginning of the Subject line and move any matching
messages to a "reports" folder.  This allows me to keep an archive of
all of the automatically generated reports for a job which runs every
night.  Unfortunately, I just noticed that Thunderbird isn't just moving
messages whose subject starts with the target substring, but is also
silently moving messages which begin "Re: RSS sites downloaded"; so I've
been missing messages from my customers who are trying to send me
information about anomalies in the reports.

Ubuntu 7.10
Thunderbird  2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10.0

What I expected to happen:

The filter only processes message whose Subject starts with the string
"RSS sites downloaded"

What happened instead:

The filter silently moved other messages to the separate folder.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 23 08:16:15 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mozilla-thunderbird 2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10.0
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux ws 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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Message filter ignoring front of Subject line
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