Jennifer Glick wrote:
> Filter after the fact is planned, but hasn't happened yet. :-(
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11033
>
> Marco Manfredini wrote:
>
workaround:
apply your filter rules in search, then refile the messages that come up.
of course, you have to do it manually for each filter, but it does work.
>
>>I just moved to the Mozilla 0.93 mail client (plaudit at the end of
>>message) and foisted him my mailing list mbox-files. Then, of course, I
>>wrote the neccesary message filters and wanted to test them on the
>>messages that arrived in the meantime. Suddenly I started feeling
>>stupid, because I couldn't figure out how to apply the new rules to the
>>/existing/ messages. I tried to delete the *.msf files, hoping that the
>>client would refilter during msf-rebuild, but he didn't. Does anybody
>>know more?
>>
>>praise:
>>
>>The 0.93 works great for me! I promise to switch back from Opera. But
>>the great surprise for me is: the Mail Client! You don't know how I
>>appreciate it that you stay with human-readable configuration files and
>>the mbox format![1] I hope it works as well for my linux box.
>>
>>Thanks! Keep the good work on. [2]
>>
>>--
>>Marco
>>
>>[1] Not like the shitty client we all know, where everything has to stay
>>in binary files, which are invisibly connected with guids and registry
>>entries, making it impossible to read the mail box for all times when
>>the client mysteriously breaks and the reinstallation doesn't recognize
>>the files anymore...
>>[2] But understand that I can't go away from XNews :-)
>>
>
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