Filters disappear after uodated to Thunderbird 78
I have just updated to TB 78 on my Mac (running Catalina 10.15.7). I used to have quite a number of filters for each of my four IMAP email accounts. These have all vanished and I only have a SpamAssassin filter in each account.
How do I get the filters back?
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Filters are stored in msgFilterRules.dat files, in each account subfolder of Mail or ImapMail in the profile, e.g. Mail/pop.gmail.com. The dat files can be copied from profile backups into the current profile, and copied between accounts.
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On further digging, I think the update might not be the issue. I have had a problem with my profile and was trying to retrieve it from a backup and I think I have lost the rules that way.
How do I recover the various sets of rules from backups of Thunderbird?
פתרון נבחר
Filters are stored in msgFilterRules.dat files, in each account subfolder of Mail or ImapMail in the profile, e.g. Mail/pop.gmail.com. The dat files can be copied from profile backups into the current profile, and copied between accounts.
Thanks for that. That’s very helpful. I didn’t realise that I could copy filters across accounts. That will make life easier (but I’m sure there will be a few gotchas).