Thunderbird filters (was: call me puzzled.)

From	Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Thunderbird filters (was: call me puzzled.)
Date	2024-01-12 14:50 +0100
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Organization	IT-Service Arno Lehmann

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Hi Gene,

Am 12.01.2024 um 14:31 schrieb gene heskett:
> I'm using tbird as an email agent, but it just did something both 
> strange and scary.
> 
> Its filters have been working very spotty, only when the phase of the 
> moon was right. And it missed moving a msg from the nut list to the 
> local nut sbbdir, so I went to the filter menu and had it add a new 
> filter based on that msg.  Then told it to "run it now". Apparently a 
> big mistake!!!!!!
> 
> tbird took about an hour, totally cleaned out the inbox at my mail 
> server of 4080 some messages, w/o adding or moving to anything, 
> absolutely zip to any local mail directory. No local msgs were played 
> with, but I've lost several hundred often used addresses that were 
> stashed in my inbox.
> 
> Does anybody have a clue what did that?

You will have to share the actual filter and actions you configured 
before anybopdy can develop any clue.

Also, adding the actual version of thunderbird will be useful.

And it may be relevant to have the account type, too -- pop3, imap, 
whatever server side, and how your local mail storage is organized.

Cheers,

Arno

> Thanks.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.

-- 
Arno Lehmann

IT-Service Lehmann
Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück

Thread

call me puzzled. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-12 14:40 +0100
  Thunderbird filters (was: call me puzzled.) Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2024-01-12 14:50 +0100
    Re: Thunderbird filters David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-01-12 22:00 +0100
      Re: Thunderbird filters gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-13 03:20 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird filters David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-01-14 11:00 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird filters gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-14 17:00 +0100
            Re: Thunderbird filters Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2024-01-14 17:20 +0100
              Re: Thunderbird filters gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-14 23:10 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird filters Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-01-14 23:30 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird filters gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-15 02:00 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird filters Arno Lehmann <al@its-lehmann.de> - 2024-01-15 01:00 +0100
            Re: Thunderbird filters David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-01-15 02:30 +0100
              Re: Thunderbird filters Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-01-15 15:10 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird filters David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-01-15 22:30 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird filters Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-01-16 03:40 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird filters David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-01-16 06:40 +0100
                Re: Thunderbird filters Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-01-16 16:20 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird filters David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-14 17:20 +0100
            Re: Thunderbird filters gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-14 23:20 +0100
              Re: Thunderbird filters Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2024-01-15 00:20 +0100
              Re: Thunderbird filters David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-15 01:50 +0100
            Re: Thunderbird filters David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2024-01-15 02:20 +0100
        Re: Thunderbird filters Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-01-14 17:50 +0100
          Re: Thunderbird filters gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-14 23:20 +0100
  Re: call me puzzled. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-15 00:20 +0100
    Re: call me puzzled. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-15 21:00 +0100
      Re: call me puzzled. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-15 21:10 +0100
        Re: call me puzzled. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2024-01-16 05:10 +0100
          Re: call me puzzled. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-01-16 07:00 +0100
      Re: call me puzzled. gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2024-01-16 00:20 +0100

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