On Thursday, September 25, 2014 09:15:34 AM BIll Spikowski wrote: > Bill Davidsen wrote: > > BIll Spikowski wrote: > >> Does anyone know where the log file is stored? I'd like to be able > >> to review it somewhere more convenient than the window provided by > >> Seamonkey, and be able to search the log file. > >> > >> I've found msgFilterRules.dat, but all I see there is the filter > >> definitions, not the filter log. > >> > >> I hadn't even thought about performance improvements; I'm mainly > >> trying to figure out why certain emails are getting filtered when > >> I don't want them to. For instance, any email FROM me has gotten > >> sent to junk, for years now! > >> > >> (I just found a couple of extensions, "filter for filters" and > >> "quickfilters," and am trying to make them work to allow filters > >> to be sorted by the name and be searched.) > > > > The order in which they are displayed is the order in which they are > > run, unless there is no interaction between them that's probably > > NOT what you want. Where multiple rules may apply to a single > > message you need some thought not to put the rules in the wrong > > order and do something really unexpected to yourself. > > > > For rules you want to run on every message, put them first if > > performance doesn't matter as much as not missing something. The, > > for performance, put rules which will delete or move many messages > > before rules which you expect to hit only a few messages. Put rules > > which are cheap to run, looking at message size or header fields, > > before filters which look in the body of the message. > The 'quickfilters' extension works great for sorting filters by name! > > I haven't noticed any performance difference, or odd interaction, > after sorting them by name. Maybe that's because my filters are > nearly all by sender name, or a word in the subject line -- and don't > require looking into the message body. > > I've managed to eliminate about a third of the filters because they're > clearly obsolete, and consolidate dozens more that were various > attempts at achieving the same result. > > (BTW, Quickfilters also has a feature for SEARCHING the filters, but I > haven't figured out how to make that work yet.) > > _______________________________________________ > support-seamonkey mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey I think you need to install the SQLite Manager and then find the message datbase under the SeaMonkey user profile in yor ~/home/Mozilla.
Hope that helps. Russ -- openSUSE 13.1(Linux 3.11.10-21-desktop x86_64| Intel(R) Quad Core(TM) i5-4440 CPU @ 3.10GHz|8GB DDR3| GeForce 8400GS (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.32)|KDE 4.14.1 _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
