Re: Thunderbird Message Filter Rules

On 3/4/2012 8:22 AM, brian wrote:
> On 02/16/2012 12:41 PM, Don wrote:
>> On 2/16/2012 11:51 AM, Neil wrote:
>>> Don wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have not as yet tried your suggestion of downloading headers only.
>>>> Currently, I am just deleting her messages that arrive on my machine.
>>>> We leave all messages on our POP server for about 5 days
>>>
>>> I take it that "Leave on POP3 server" is on but "Until I delete
>>> them" is
>>> turned off, in which case you can filter the message headers and choose
>>> to either delete them or download them as appropriate. This will then
>>> avoid downloading entire messages that you don't want.
>>>
>> Neil,
>>
>> I have just written a Message Filter called "Deleted by Subject" that
>> contains, for now, eight message groups that are deleted upon arrival
>> at my computer, only. They are downloaded but not removed from our POP
>> server. Works for me, just fills up the Trash but that is easy to take
>> care of. Should my wife ever need to use my computer to read these, I
>> can either disable the filter or she can check out the trash!
>>
>> Don
>
>
> While we're on the subject of msgFilterRules, am I the only one who
> would find a simple search feature useful? It's a PITA having to keep a
> separate copy of the file to load into a text editor every time I want
> to find a filter.
>
>
> Brian.
>
>
Brian,

All of my filters are listed under Tools/Message Filters, therefore, 
easily found. Not sure why you are having a problem.

I am running TB 10.0.2.

Don