274162 - When copying msgFilterRules.dat to first created mail acct, filters do not appear.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Kris]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.54  [en]
Build Identifier: version 1.0 (20041206)

I have read and understand that you cannot run rules automatically on Local 
Folders. I also read that if you copy the above mentioned file to all your mail 
folder in your profile that u do not have to recreate them for each account in 
order to get them to autorun. Herein is where the problem lies. 

I have copied this above mentioned file to all my mail folders within my profile 
and all is grand with the exception of one mail folder which is the first 
account I created in TB and is also the acct of my default smtp. No matter if I 
copy over the .dat file or actually open it and copy and paste the filters 
within it, after restarting TB the dat file for this mail acct reverts to its 
previous setting with no filters. Eventually I will have about 100 filters (due 
to many mailing lists) and most of them come to this specific acct., so the 
filters for this are important. 

Please tell me what I'm doing wrong as I really need this acct to filter 
properly. I'm surprised that no one has made an extension to run filters on 
local folders yet. 

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Copied .dat file to first created acct- filters do not show
2.Edited existing .dat within that acct folder - filters do not appear
3..dat reverts itself to orginal state

Actual Results:  
I have copied this above mentioned file to all my mail folders within my profile 
and all is grand with the exception of one mail folder which is the first 
account I created in TB and is also the acct of my default smtp. No matter if I 
copy over the .dat file or actually open it and copy and paste the filters 
within it, after restarting TB the dat file for this mail acct reverts to its 
previous setting with no filters. Eventually I will have about 100 filters (due 
to many mailing lists) and most of them come to this specific acct., so the 
filters for this are important. 


Expected Results:  
Shown the filters in the mail account as has been explained on the 
knowledgebase.

Comment 1

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