Recommended Addon

[RealRaven]

Maintainer: RealRaven
Creator: Axel Grude

Ext. Version: 1.8pre17
Release date: 2013-03-16
Description: Quickly generate mail filters on the fly, by dragging and dropping mails and analyzing their attributes. Create a filter in less than 10 seconds, it's as easy as: drag, click, click. Now supports easy merging of filters.
Extension is compatible to: ( 9.0 - 20.*) ( 2.0 - 2.19.*)

Included locales: de en fr it ja nl ru sv-SE vi zh-CN

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This post has been edited by RealRaven: May 15 2013, 11:18

[RealRaven]

HI everybody - this is pending review on AMO and ther eis already a homepage at Mozdev.org: http://quickfilters.mozdev.org/index.html

A couple of screen shots:

The Assistant



Options Screen:


So, how does it work?

Click on the quickFilters button on the main toolbar


The button will change depicting a glowing wheel instead of the mail icon and there will be sliding notification:


Drag an email into a folder on the left hand folder tree. This will trigger the Create Filter Assistant.

(see image above)

select a template (e.g. "based on Sender") and click [Create Filter...] - in the example I have pulled an email into the QuickFolders folder. See below for a detailed description.
Next, the Edit Filter dialog is displayed - as you can see it already tries to "guess" what you want the filter to do when it should be applied, based on the email that you dragged to the folder. Note there are no translations necessary as this is a built in dialog of Thunderbird:



Since in this case I chose "Based on Sender", it will pull all conversations from and to joe@quickFolders.com into the QuickFolders folder. No need to select the folder (as it has been done automatically) or to enter any condition (this is based on the template that you have chosen).
Now tweak the filter as usual and click Ok to save it (and try it out in the Filter List)
You can also click Cancel to not create the filter
in the last step Thundebird's list of filters is shown.

FOr translators, the only new things are new buttons [move to top] p[move to bottom] and the search box + filter count box:



You can repeat the process from step 2 to create more filters
When you're done, click the filter button again to disable "Filter Wizard" mode.

[longnh]

Vietnamese localization is available.

[RealRaven]

Vietnamese localization is available.

Thanks that's great

I have just done a major search & replace operation, decided to brand quickFolders starting with a lowercase "q" (In order to avoid confusion with QuickFolders). Hope I didn't break anything in your translations! I reset the translations status just in case. I think it affects vi, it, nl, ja, de locales.

I also removed the (English) translations from the japanese locale.



Axel

[RealRaven]

A new version is up. ON user request, I added a button for running the message filters - it calls the same function as the menu entry tools > "run filters on folder".

It looks like this



thanks for your help!
AXel

[jojaba]

Finally, FR translation done on WTS ;)

[RealRaven]

Finally, FR translation done on WTS ;)

Thanks!!

I really appreciate it...

If you are interested I have inherited another extension called SmartTemplate4 and that also has an incomplete French locale

kind regards,
Axel

[jojaba]

If you are interested I have inherited another extension called SmartTemplate4 and that also has an incomplete French locale

French translation completed in WTS and proofreaded but not tested. I took contact with jujuf851, the original translator, waiting for an answer... ;)

[RealRaven]

Sorry,



I had to add some last minute additions, after testing in SeaMonkey: We need an alternative string that contains the word "flag" instead of "star".

At the same time I implemented a feature request for auto-starting the assistant when Thundebird starts; which should be straightfoward, hopefully.

Thanks in advance
Axel