TB3 not filtering

[Basil Chupin]

On 11/09/2010 12:18, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 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
>    

I forgot to mention that there possibly is another way to get to where 
you want to go.

Have a look in Account Settings>Server Settings>Advanced where there is 
the choice to put all your incoming mail into the one basket (Local).

BC

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