[MlMt] Finding rules

[MlMt at rhp.tw]

  I miss Eudora. That was a really great email client.  MailMate is the 
closest thing I've found to it, and I've looked a long time for a worthy 
replacement.

On Wed Nov 25, 2020 at 04:13 PM, Randall Gellens wrote:

> 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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