[ubuntu-uk] thunderbird message filter rules

Ivan Wright quidsup at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 00:14:38 UTC 2012


I would have said copy  the .mozilla folder but you'll get all the settings
inluding logon details.

Ivan
On Mar 9, 2012 8:50 PM, "Simon Greenwood" <sfgreenwood at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 9 March 2012 20:42, paul sutton <zleap at zleap.net> wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> Having made a set of rules for what thunderbird does with mail from
>> different people (move to different folders)  this works fine on my
>> desktop, if I want to reproduce the same set of rules on other computers
>> I either have to do this manually (which means when i reinstall
>> something i have to do it all over again).  There does not seem to be a
>> save rules option in the dialog box that allows me to create the rules,
>> so is there another way of
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>> a) saving these rules
>> b) copy them to another computer
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>> as I am using imap then if I create a folder it does this on the server
>> so that folder creation is sync'd so all i need is a way to copy the
>> rules over.
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>> Any ideas,  if this is not possible how would i go about suggesting this
>> to Mozilla and an idea for later versions.
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> There's an addon here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/thunderbird-message-filter-imp/?src=ss
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> Install it on both machines, exports filters as a text file.
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