Prefill Filter
The doc says
> The first conditions line is prefilled with: "the 'Sender' 'Is'
> <email_address>". Regardless of whether the user clicked on a "From",
> "To", or "Cc", the filter is created using "the ' Sender' ' Is'
> <email_address>".
The idea of prefill is to create a filter based on the current message,
a filter that would catch the current message. If you make From
("Sender") out of "To", you violate this basic idea.
Example: I want to filter this very mail in a certain folder. I select
"Create Filter..." for "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]". I seleclt a
folder, confirm and execpt it to work. It doesn't because the rule
"Sender is [EMAIL PROTECTED]" has been created, which willl naver match.
> For example, the default Action is "Move to Folder". If the user does
> not select a destination folder and clicks the "OK" button, an alert
> opens, "Please select a destination folder".
I suggest an enhancement: If the message is not in the inbox (which
usually means that the user already moved the message from the inbox to
the current folder), prefill the destination folder with the folder in
which the message is.
E.g. I have a folder for my friend Jay. I get an email from him, and I
sort it manually to "his" folder. I open the message there, select
"Create Filter..." on his From address, confirm twice and from now on,
messages from Jay will be sorted to "his" folder.
Block Address
> Gear toward Beginning and Intermediate users. Although not the most
> effective way of blocking mail from spammers, this feature gives users
> a sense of control.
A false sense.
Most spammers use throw-away addresses, none will appear twice.
Beginners probably don't know that. They will try to block these spammer
addresses and just end up with countless useless filter rules. That
should be avoided .
The other usage is to block human senders. Do we really want to
encourage that, by making it really easy?
(Note: We're talking about mail only here - 'filters currently don't
work at all on news', see other message in this thread. I agree that it
would make sense on news.)
There might be rare cases where blocking a mail sender makes sense, e.g.
for blocking mailung lists in huge corporations. But isn't Prefill
Filter enough for these cases?
I suggest to drop the Block Address feature for mail.
