TB3 not filtering

[Basil Chupin]

On 11/09/2010 08:07, Wade Smart wrote:
> On 09/07/2010 06:46 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> On 08/09/2010 00:26, Wade Smart wrote:
>>      
>>> I just moved to 10.04 and Im having serious trouble with Thunderbird 3.
>>>
>>> For some reason its classifing all email as Spam.
>>>
>>> So Im creating my rules to filter by and it works 1 time.
>>> I noticed you cant use the Create Filter from Message as it doesnt
>>> create a filter. So I do it manually - and it will run that one time. It
>>> wont run again.
>>>
>>> On this list I have:
>>> Checking Mail or Manually Run
>>> To or CC contains ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>>>
>>> So I have been creating about 45 filters now and they arent running.
>>>
>>> Wade
>>>
>>>        
>> Out of curiosity, did you put in all the necessary parameters in the
>> Message Filter? For example, did you fill in the very last part where
>> "it" wants to know where to place the filtered message? - you don't have
>> them all going to JUNK (ie spam)?
>>
>> Just for completeness, I've been using TB since it was knee high to a
>> grasshopper and the filtering system has never failed me.
>>
>> BC
>>
>>      
> I did. After a bunch of reading I think it has to do with
> filters for multiple accounts. On tb2, a filter would handle any
> email from any account in inbox but on tb3 its by account.
>    

Mmmm, the only time I had two accounts was when I was switching from one 
ISP to another - and this hassle did not bother me.

But I see what you mean: the filter does work on Account (the choice now 
is <some-ISP-account> or Local Folders or Newsgroups).

Which leads me to suggest - although, of course, I have not tried this: 
the only ID for an Account is the Name of Account under Account View 
Settings, so....why not give the other(s) the same *name* but, 
naturally, leave the Server details alone? In theory, then, all mail 
will go into the same inbox and then you use your filters to distribute 
it among the folders you create.

Backup your /.thunderbird directory and try this - BUT before any of 
this, for each Account set in the Server settings for your mail(s) not 
to be deleted after pickup so that if things don't work out you can 
still pickup your mail using the original, now backed up, /.thunderbird.

If you do try it, let us all know how this works out.

BC


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