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9.3

Mail Filters change when copied to different computer

Asked by lepirtle in Thunderbird Email Client

Tags: Mozilla Thunderbird v2.0.0.23

I have a Message Filters that I regularly use and update on my desktop computer. The various filters all do the same thing, moving messages to a specific folder, named "1Accept", that I created beneath one of my user accounts. Whenever I travel I copy that msgFilterRules.dat to my portable computer so that I can continue to use that same filter. This has been working perfectly for several years.

I just purchased a new portable computer on which I copied the msgFilterRules.dat. But on this computer, when I look at the Filter Rules, the "Perform these actions: 'Move Message to' " is not the same folder, "1Accept", to which my filter is actually written, but instead, it changes itself to the top-level folder. I can, manually, use the drop-down to change the "move to" folder, but doing this for all 30 of my filters is not the most efficient use of my time every time I want to copy the updated file from my desktop to my portable. What puzzles me is that this procedure has been working fine for years on my other portable computer. Note that all the mail accounts and folders are named the same and have the same structure on all 3 computers.

I have opened each of the two msgFilterRules.dat files, the desktop file and the file that I copied to my portable, and both read exactly the same, for example one of the filters reads:
name="0-9"
enabled="yes"
type="1"
action="Move to folder"
actionValue="mailbox://lep@lepirtle.com/1Accept"
condition="OR (subject,contains,8479100360)"

I have spent about 4 hours trying different things like removing my profiles, creating new, bogus account names, and I finally deleted Thunderbird, deleted all related folders, then re-installed Thunderbird. But still the same problem: the "Perform these actions: 'Move Message to' " is somehow changed from "1Accept" which I have specified on my desktop computer. See below "orig" and "newcomputer" screen shots.

Might someone help me "keep" the move message to folder the same on this computer as on my other two?

All computers are Windows XP with the same Thunderbird v2.0.0.23.

Thanks.
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