Problems with thunderbird-3.0 Beta 4 message filters

[Michael Cronenworth]

Barbara Saraceno on 10/05/2009 04:56 PM wrote:
> After having updated to the most recent thunderbird-3.0 Beta4, some Imap
> message filters (moving mails from Inbox to some target folder after
> having checked the *Sender* header), no more run correctly: The filter
> log says that the mails have been moved to the target folder, but they
> still reside in the Inbox folder.
> 
> For testing my filters I downgraded shortly to
> thunderbird-3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11.i586, and they did run sucessfully; after
> updating again to 3.0 Beta 4, I still had the the described problem.
> 
> Somebody has similar problems?
> 

It's a bug (probably better classified as side-effect) of Smart Folders.
I haven't checked upstream to see if it's being fixed yet.

1) Open up the Inbox and select a single account inbox. Then go to
Tools>Run Filters on Folder.
or
2) If you change back to the traditional folder display it should work.