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2nd question: how do I export filters in thunderbird 68.8.0

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Apologies if this turns out to be a dupe...can't find any evidence that this was posted.

I need to move my filters from Thunderbird to procmail, but first, I need to know how to export them (e.g., to a CSV file) in Thunderbird 68.8.0. There used to be a extension for that...not sure what happened to it, but it apparently doesn't exist anymore. So, without that extension, do I export filters? I'm running tbird on Windows 10 Home, if that makes a difference.

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Apologies if this turns out to be a dupe...can't find any evidence that this was posted. I need to move my filters from Thunderbird to procmail, but first, I need to know how to export them (e.g., to a CSV file) in Thunderbird 68.8.0. There used to be a extension for that...not sure what happened to it, but it apparently doesn't exist anymore. So, without that extension, do I export filters? I'm running tbird on Windows 10 Home, if that makes a difference. Thanks

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There's no option to export or import filters in TB 68. You can copy the msgFilterRules.dat file between accounts and profiles, but only with TB. The dat file can be viewed in a text editor, which may help in transferring the rules to another mail app.

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There's no option to export or import filters in TB 68. You can copy the msgFilterRules.dat file between accounts and profiles, but only with TB. The dat file can be viewed in a text editor, which may help in transferring the rules to another mail app.

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I know there used to be an extension that exported filters. Not sure what happened to it or why its developer removed it, but I wish they hadn't---it worked very nicely. Oh well. I had actually found those files earlier this afternoon, shortly after I posted that the solution to the incessant nagging about a new release was easily fixed, once and for all, by removing updater.exe.  :-) Thunderbird and Firefox are both leaving me alone nicely now. So they get to live.

Oh, and I probably won't be editing those filter files by hand---much simpler to write a quick Tcl script that will convert them to a simple CSV (I'm guessing about 20--30 lines of actual code, at most---could be a lot less).

Thanks. Marking this one solved.