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TB 102.0.3 Customization of headers in filters creation option

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Lampros
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Hi, When creating a filter, we have to choose among the headers From, To, Subject, Body etc. I would like a create a new email header ro show only "From and To". How can I make use of the customize option at the end of the menu to match my goal?

Hi, When creating a filter, we have to choose among the headers From, To, Subject, Body etc. I would like a create a new email header ro show only "From and To". How can I make use of the customize option at the end of the menu to match my goal?
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Matt
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The short answer is you can not do what you want. Filters are restricted to those fields listed in the message header and they can not be concatenated.

This add-on may allow you to achieve that using JavaScript, but you will have to be already proficient with the JavaScript language. https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/filtaquilla/?src=ss

Lampros
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@matt, thanks for replying, surely I'm not familiar with Javascript but I can't understand that the developers of TB placed the option to customize at the end of the list in vain.

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Lampros said
@matt, thanks for replying, surely I'm not familiar with Javascript but I can't understand that the developers of TB placed the option to customize at the end of the list in vain.

Fundamentally there are a lot of email headers. Some standard, others custom from spam filters, Thunderbird itself and other mail servers. Anything delivered to yahoo for instance gets a load of x-Yahoo headers. The customize entry is to add them.