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Message Filter entry cannot be edited since update to 68.2.1

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belvin08901
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Using <Options><Message Filters><Message Filters>Select Filter<Edit>, Thunderbird 68.2.1 hangs. Crash on exit. Restarted in Safe Mode, same result. Had not had problem before update.

Using <Options><Message Filters><Message Filters>Select Filter<Edit>, Thunderbird 68.2.1 hangs. Crash on exit. Restarted in Safe Mode, same result. Had not had problem before update.

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belvin08901
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Edited Filter File and divided filters. Divided Long OR filters now will open but take a substantial amount of time.

sfhowes
sfhowes
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Can you post a crash URL? Help/Troubleshooting Information, Crash reports.

Try running in Windows safe mode.

belvin08901
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After dividing the long search string, it does not crash, instead it takes one or two minutes to open the editing panel. The condition string in msgFilterRules.dat on some of these filters is 400 items (OR statements) long. These worked fine with previous versions.

sfhowes
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Are these 400 items referring to individual contacts? If so, it might work better with a rule that looks like From + 'is in my address book' + <select address book>, instead of hundreds of From + 'is' + <email address>.