Dirk Fieldhouse wrote:
On 22/09/2020 22:18, NFN Smith wrote:
My mail provider just changed to a new server -- same email address, ...
Thus the question is of whether there's an easy way of copying
existing filters from one account to another, or if I'm stuck with
re-creating all the filters by hand. Or doing another messy
transition of changing the server name for the existing account.
In your profile, specifically the folders that store mail and news, you
should find text files called msgFilterRules.dat (and also
<newsgroupname>.dat). Not having tested, I imagine that a bit of
judicious copying and editing of the contents (while SM is not running)
will achieve what you want.
Good to know.
I ended up simply changing server names after all. In this particular
case, the provider is still the same even if the hostname is a different
provider. Besides changing the POP connection, I also had to create a
new SMTP connection to go through the new server.
For my use, I know what is happening, and can do it without undue
confusion, especially since I've been watching the details in-process.
Several years ago, for another account, I made a complete change of
mail, moving from my connectivity provider to a dedicated mail provider.
For that, changing server names and email address was enough that it
was more confusing ongoing. Since the whole setup was brand new, in
retrospect, I should have simply created a new account (and that one
didn't have nearly as many filtering rules in place).
For this transition, once I changed the server names, I had no problems
with connecting for either POP or SMTP. The only minor glitch (and
expected) was a batch of duplicate messages that Seamonkey didn't
recognize as having been seen, because they came from a different
server. Not a real problem to discard a couple hundred duplicates.
Thanks for the feedback.
Smith
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