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Message filters on all accounts

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sbylemans
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Hey,

I currently have all my accounts show their e-mails in unified folders. For me this was the most convenient way to combine them. I also have certain filters on them, but I needed to specify these for every single account, which is not convenient. Is it possible to specify filters that apply on all of my accounts? I would suspect that this is not a hard feature to implement... I also tried to move all messages to a local folder and apply the filter on this one, but that was not a satisfactory solution.

Thanks in advance.

Hey, I currently have all my accounts show their e-mails in unified folders. For me this was the most convenient way to combine them. I also have certain filters on them, but I needed to specify these for every single account, which is not convenient. Is it possible to specify filters that apply on all of my accounts? I would suspect that this is not a hard feature to implement... I also tried to move all messages to a local folder and apply the filter on this one, but that was not a satisfactory solution. Thanks in advance.

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Toad-Hall
Toad-Hall
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Message Filters are applied per account. However, if the same filters need to be applied to other mail accounts, they can be copied between mail accounts.

Suggest you create all the filters (that you require to use in all mail accounts) in one mail account then do the following to get them used for all your mail accounts.

In Thunderbird

  • Help > TRoubleshooting Information
  • click on 'show folder'
  • close Thunderbird now - this is important.

As I'm not sure whether you have pop or imap, I'll put in both...

  • click on 'Mail' folder to see pop mail accounts and Local Folders.

or

  • click on 'ImapMail' folder to see imap mail folders
  • click on mail account name look for msgFilterRules.dat file.

Copy/paste the msgFilterRules.dat file to other mail accounts, overwriting the the msgFilterRules.dat in each mail account.

Restart Thunderbird and you will see the same filters have been applied to all accounts.

More info:

If you cannot see the profile folders, then make hidden files and folders visible: