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Bug 525932 - Unhelpful "Error while Filtering Selected Messages."
Unhelpful "Error while Filtering Selected Messages."
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
aklapper[errormessages]
: 319479 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 502515
 
 
Reported: 2008-04-03 10:45 UTC by Thomas Wood
Modified: 2012-12-03 15:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
evo patch (1.78 KB, patch)
2012-12-03 15:28 UTC, Milan Crha 		committed Details | Review

Description Thomas Wood 2008-04-03 10:45:35 UTC 
Attempting to filter some messages, I get the following unhelpful message:

  Error while Filtering Selected Messages.

  No provider available for protocol `email'

Firstly, `' should not be used for quotes. Secondly, this message means virtually nothing to the user, and is completely unhelpful in providing any clue into what the problem is.
Comment 2 Thomas Wood 2008-04-07 15:46:46 UTC 
The only issue being that I haven't recently done anything described on that page.

Anyway, my bug report was mainly about the message itself, rather than the cause. I'll fix the bug description to specify this more clearly.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2012-02-08 11:00:02 UTC 
Also see bug 579315 about the issue itself.
Comment 4 Milan Crha 2012-12-03 15:28:42 UTC 
Created attachment 230536 [details] [review]
evo patch

for evolution;

This changes the message to:
   Failed to filter selected messages. One reason can be that folder
   location set in one or more filters is invalid. Please check your
   filters in Edit->Message Filters.\n
   Original error was: ...
which, I hope, is more descriptive. It does that only for errors about invalid URIs, not for all.
Comment 5 Milan Crha 2012-12-03 15:30:19 UTC 
Created commit b9b56d3 in evo master (3.7.3+)
Comment 6 Milan Crha 2012-12-03 15:36:17 UTC 
*** Bug 319479 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***