[MlMt] Finding rules

[Randall Gellens]

I've mentioned before that finding a rule that acted on a message can be 
quite frustrating, and I've sung the praises for the old Mac Eudora's 
feature that allowed one to select one or more messages and then see the 
rules that would operate on them.  Mac Eudora had a menu item that 
showed all rules, allowed editing/copying/deleting them.  Holding down a 
bucky bit (I think it was "option") when clicking this menu item with 
one or more messages selected opened the window and highlighted the 
rules that matched the selected message(s).  Super handy.

--Randall

On 25 Nov 2020, at 12:04, Glenn Parker wrote:

> On 25 Nov 2020, at 13:14, Charlie Clark wrote:
>
>> On 25 Nov 2020, at 16:18, Glenn Parker wrote:
>>
>>> Rules are stored in ~/Library/Application\\ 
>>> Support/MailMate/Mailboxes.plist
>>>
>>> You can open it with TextEdit and search for “rule”. Probably 
>>> safest to do this when MailMate is not running, or make a copy of 
>>> the file to play around with.
>>
>> Yes, I worked that out. Looks like it's a form of JSON, so I can 
>> probably write something to work with it. I can sort of understand 
>> why it's not accessible in another way from within MailMate but I 
>> think it could be useful to see filters / rules together.
>
> I wasn’t thinking you would do any serious editing in TextEdit. This 
> will allow you to find the location of the rule, after which you can 
> go back to editing it inside MailMate as usual.
>
> Glenn P. Parker
> glenn.parker at comcast.net
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