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Is there a way to turn Filters off? I don't want to lose them

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jumper77
jumper77

I have my email REALLY locked down. Only about 2 or 3 people can reach me. However, I need to turn it off for a while because of a message that I'm expecting. I have spent a LOT of time making the filters and don't want to lose them. Is there a way I can just turn them off?

Just thought of something... I have the addon for exporting filters, I could just export, the delete. Would that work?

I have my email REALLY locked down. Only about 2 or 3 people can reach me. However, I need to turn it off for a while because of a message that I'm expecting. I have spent a LOT of time making the filters and don't want to lose them. Is there a way I can just turn them off? Just thought of something... I have the addon for exporting filters, I could just export, the delete. Would that work?

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Zenos
Zenos

Chosen Solution

Each filter has an on/off checkbox.

Or, perhaps quicker than exporting your filters, you could move or rename the msgFilterRules.dat file in each account's folder.

Modified by Zenos

jumper77
jumper77 Question owner

Thank you very much, I will use that next time. This time I just exported the filters, the deleted them. But that makes me a little nervous.

I've put a ton of work into my filters. I get somewhere between 150 and 200 emails a day. and I only want to get email from 2 or three sites :)

I'm going to mark this as solved if I can see how :) thanks a bunch