On Sun, 2018-07-29 at 18:00 -0400, John Lewis wrote: > How do I export message filters in Evolution?
I have a feeling that exporting the filters is easy, importing them elsewhere into a different instance of Evolution is not. The issue is that things like "destination folder" in the filter uses the internal Evolution name for the folder and those names are not consistent between copies of Evolution on different machines. When an account is created in Evolution it is given a unique name and the folder URI is related to that name. Consequently the actions will not be easily transferable between machines. It works with the Backup/Restore because the whole configuration, including the internal account names, are restored so the folder URIs are the same. If you want to see this, look at the filter configuration file at ~/.config/evolution/mail/filters.xml and the list of names of the accounts in ~/.config/evolution/sources/ Note, moving the filter.xml around *may* work if it is simple or you are using only local folders, but it will, in all likelihood, not work. And it will certainly not work as a generic solution in all cases. TBH, what would be really useful would be a way of printing out the filters in some humanly readable form. I don't mind creating the filters from scratch (it's not exactly arduous), but there's no generic way of displaying/printing all of them on one machine so I can recreate them elsewhere. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
