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Mystery message filter

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I have an old message filter running that i cannot find to delete it. It was set up pre-Unified days. I have manually searched all the msgFilterRules.dat files I can find. Two of them have filters listed, but none of them are the mystery filter. My Thunderbird setup has been transferred through several computers with the backup / restore utility. I've just never realized this filter was still active until i went looking for an expected email.

I have an old message filter running that i cannot find to delete it. It was set up pre-Unified days. I have manually searched all the msgFilterRules.dat files I can find. Two of them have filters listed, but none of them are the mystery filter. My Thunderbird setup has been transferred through several computers with the backup / restore utility. I've just never realized this filter was still active until i went looking for an expected email.

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Hmmm, that is a possibility. Not one I would have picked as I did all the other filters within Thunderbird. Will check and report back.

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How do you know this mystery filter is running? What does it do?

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Was expecting an email, but it didn't show. I'm using Unified Inbox.

After waiting for quite a while I went hunting through the Spam and Trash, nothing. Then I scrolled all the way down (It's the last account in the list ) and found a folder I had created WAY back to catch all the newsletters and such from this site. I remember setting up the filter so that everything from this site dropped into this folder.

Lo and behold there was my 'missing' emails.

As I said, I remember setting up this filter a LONG time ago. But it doesn't show up in any of the current filter listings, but I know it's running as two emails were diverted to this sub folder.

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Sure you did not set it up on the mail server? We often see folk looking for filter who have done that and then forgotten about it.

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Odabrano rješenje

Hmmm, that is a possibility. Not one I would have picked as I did all the other filters within Thunderbird. Will check and report back.

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That was it!