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2020-10-28 Thread Bob Goodwin
I have installed  and updated Fedora-33-Beta with XFCE. I have a problem configuring the received mail filter. I can create sub directories under inbox but the mail filter setup gui does not show them as available to send messages to. I have set up these filters many times and it normally

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2015-04-25 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/24/2015 09:44 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: . With g's help the problem with deleting the Centos mail filter directory is solved. The files were located by doing - [root@box10 bobg]# find . -name Centos

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2015-04-24 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
I sortpop3mail into directories with Thunderbird which works well for me. However when I unsubscribe from a list I often want to remove the filter's directory is shown in the Inbox Menu at the top left. So I right click on the directory and choose delete from the menu, it asks for

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2015-04-24 Thread g
On 04/24/2015 12:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: all of your account info is in the prefs.js file.. that will give you some idea.. while such is true, it only applies to default changes. not _all_ of account info is in prefs.js. see; http://kb.mozillazine.org/Prefs.js_file something i

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2015-04-24 Thread g
On 04/24/2015 01:07 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: It would probably take less time to simply delete the whole Mail section and start over than to work this out. I dunno ... open msgFilterRules.dat with a plain text editor to edit. each filter rule starts with name=. --

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2015-04-24 Thread g
On 04/24/2015 10:05 AM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I dunno, one day I will bite the bullet and start with a new set of filters and saved mail. I probably have about fifty filters and sort into less than a dozen items, most are to get rid of annoying stuff. The mail file is

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2015-04-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 04/24/2015 01:13 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I wonder if anyone actually understands the inner workings of Thunderbird? all of your account info is in the prefs.js file.. that will give you some idea.. here is a google hit for filters:

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2015-04-24 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/24/2015 04:04 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 04/24/2015 03:35 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 04/24/2015 02:37 PM, g wrote: something i should have mentioned, is that i removed 2 account names by prepending a period to the account names. Inwhat file did you do this?

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2015-04-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 04/24/2015 06:11 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: -- Paul Cartwright Yes, I understand what you are telling me but perhaps my responses have not been clear? I quit Thunderbird. I did:gedit

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2015-04-24 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/24/2015 10:41 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote: I have Thunderbird 31.6 Fedora 21 amd_x86 I just removed a filter deleted the folder, and it went away. the folder is in a sub-folder of my personal folders, NOT the inbox... if that matters.. I currrently have 253 filters for my gmail

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2015-04-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 04/24/2015 10:10 AM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I sortpop3mail into directories with Thunderbird which works well for me. However when I unsubscribe from a list I often want to remove the filter's directory is shown in the Inbox Menu at the top left. So I right click on the

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2015-04-24 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/24/2015 04:04 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: not sure I totally understand where you are trying to delete these folders.. If these are folders in your local folders email, all you need to do is navigate using a file manager to your .thunderbirdLocal Folders . With g's help the

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2015-04-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 04/24/2015 11:05 AM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Well with that many filters I assume you must keep copying them between Fedora versions? So it should work for me. that mail file has seen many different linux OSes.. Debian Fedora at least.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux

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2015-04-24 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/24/2015 12:11 PM, g wrote: open file browser to; /home/bobg/.thunderbird/o111r0ba.default/Mail/ there you will see all your email accounts. some may have a file with .msf extension. . That is a strange collection of incomprehensible stuff. The only related thing I could recognize

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2015-04-24 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/24/2015 01:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 04/24/2015 01:13 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: I wonder if anyone actually understands the inner workings of Thunderbird? all of your account info is in the prefs.js file.. that will give you some idea.. here is a google hit

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2015-04-24 Thread Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA
On 04/24/2015 02:37 PM, g wrote: something i should have mentioned, is that i removed 2 account names by prepending a period to the account names. Inwhat file did you do this? Jt has no effect in /msgFilterRules.dat. I can add the dot in the menu in the pane by using the renam function,

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2015-04-24 Thread Paul Cartwright
On 04/24/2015 03:35 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 04/24/2015 02:37 PM, g wrote: something i should have mentioned, is that i removed 2 account names by prepending a period to the account names. Inwhat file did you do this? Jt has no effect in /msgFilterRules.dat. I can

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2015-04-24 Thread g
On 04/24/2015 02:35 PM, Bob Goodwin ~ Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: On 04/24/2015 02:37 PM, g wrote: something i should have mentioned, is that i removed 2 account names by prepending a period to the account names. Inwhat file did you do this? Jt has no effect in /msgFilterRules.dat. I