Can't get filters to function
I'm trying to transition from Eudora to T'bird. I've got both installed on my Win11 laptop. I've used Eudora 25+ years, i have about 4 or 500 filters set up. I can't get … (read more)
I'm trying to transition from Eudora to T'bird. I've got both installed on my Win11 laptop. I've used Eudora 25+ years, i have about 4 or 500 filters set up. I can't get even one filter to work on T'bird, so my Inbox now contains a near-useless jumble of over 2000 messages. Gotta get past this to keep using T'bird. E.G. I subscribe to an email forum called Baen's Bar. It accounts for 80% of my inbound traffic. So I set up this single filter:
Apply when: Manually and New email Match all of: From Contains baen Subject contains baen To contains baen
Actions: Move message to: Baen Bar on green@xplornet.com' (i created this folder and see it below "Inbox") (AFAIK these criteria should capture every relevant email) (Question #1: is matching content a case-sensitive test?)
(Aside: when typing this query, i tried to make the actual dialog italic for clarity. I highlighted some text and hit the "i" above the dialog box, all it did was enclose the highlighted text with quotes - really? so Question #2 - italics not working?)
Anyway what happens is, no apparent filtering when getting new mail, and in the "Message Filters" dialog box, when i select the one and only filter, and make sure "Enabled" is checked, and click on "Run Now", also nothing happens. Ok, i say "nothing", but when i look in the "Baen Bar" folder, there are three (3) messages containing the word "baen". Three out of the 2,000 such messages cluttering my inbox. I could understand "none", i could understand "2,000", but "3"? WTF??? I tried it multiple times, not sure which attempt even got those 3. Solutions gratefully accepted.
Question #3 I noticed a reference to "Importing filters from Eudora". I DO NOT want the **content** of Eudora's hundreds of mailboxes to be imported - it's probably over 8 Gb. I'm fine leaving that content archived with Eudora. Is there a way to import the filter list and folder list from Eudora without importing the contents?
Question #4 Where is T'bird storing my email? Most of my cyber-world is on an external HDD. I love about Eudora that it's fully portable. I can literally unplug my external HDD from my Win11 laptop and plug it into your laptop, rename the drive to J: and just run Eudora. Can i do that with T'bird?