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Is the "time" filter for messages gone?

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Kody
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Hi,

I had a message filter who marked as read messages I'd get from our status bot for two services (because they're offline during the night) and I only wanted that to happen for messages between 7pm and 6am. But when I upgraded to Firefox 68, the "time" type was missing and I can't find it anymore.

I couldn't find anything about that in the changelogs nor did see anyone talk about it. Is this a bug or did we loose a feature?

Thanks.

Hi, I had a message filter who marked as read messages I'd get from our status bot for two services (because they're offline during the night) and I only wanted that to happen for messages between 7pm and 6am. But when I upgraded to Firefox 68, the "time" type was missing and I can't find it anymore. I couldn't find anything about that in the changelogs nor did see anyone talk about it. Is this a bug or did we loose a feature? Thanks.

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Filters have only ever been able to act on messages that are a certain Age in Days or arrive before or after a certain date. To have one act according to a specific time interval, you might be able to do this with a custom Received header. Unless you arranged to open TB just before 7pm, and applied Age in Days + is less than + 1.

Do you have a backup of the filter file, msgFilterRules.dat, with 'time'.?

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Filters have only ever been able to act on messages that are a certain Age in Days or arrive before or after a certain date. To have one act according to a specific time interval, you might be able to do this with a custom Received header. Unless you arranged to open TB just before 7pm, and applied Age in Days + is less than + 1.

Do you have a backup of the filter file, msgFilterRules.dat, with 'time'.?

Kody
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I can't find my previous msgFilterRules.dat unfortunately. I might think that I used an extension at some point in the past and just forgot about it. Sorry for taking your time.