Filter HTML messages by content

Question

I would like to filter the messages that contain some HTML content. I have tried to create a filter such as:

body contains ViewSettings.jspa?name=marius.botis">Marius Botis

I copied&pasted the string from the message source. Is this a bug or is it not intended to work this way? Any suggestions? :)

P.S.: I am using the latest thunderbird from Ubuntu (3.0.8) P.S. 2: This is a sample of the html:

<tr style="vertical-align:top;">
  <td style="font-weight:bold;white-space:nowrap;">FromUser:</td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://server/ViewSettings.jspa?name=marius.botis">Marius Botis</a>
  </td>
</tr>
<tr style="vertical-align:top;">
  <td style="font-weight:bold;white-space:nowrap;">ToUser:</td>
  <td>
    <a href="http://server/ViewSettings.jspa?name=marius.botis">Marius Botis</a>
  </td>
</tr>

Answer 1

As far as I know (correct me if I am wrong) but thunderbird looks at the message content when you are filtering. It does not look at the message source which would contain the html and plaintext portion of messages.

What specifically are you trying to filter? I would imagine there is a way to do it without worrying about HTML source.