Re: [Evolution] What is the format for rules in filters.xml? How can I alter or creat rules?

[Jim Beard <jim beard verizon net>]

Thank your for your response.

I am not confident I could provide a backtrace.  I have not 
done one of those in over a decade, and I remember things 
changing then in what one had to do in various circumstances.

/usr/share/evolution/filtertypes.xml may be useful, but it will 
take a bit of study to see if I can figure out how to use it 
from existing examples.

The idea of creating the filters.xml on a different machine or 
perhaps under a different version of Mageia would seem to have 
merit.  It will be a few days before I will take on such a 
task, as it will involve gathering the data for an extensive 
set of rules, creating them on the other machine or OS, testing 
there, and then copying to my main machine.

The stop processing that occurs does so without any 
<part name="stop">  in the filters.xml file.

In creating a new filters.xml file, I first moved the original 
to a safe location, and copied it back to its proper location.  
This resulted in a first line of the file with a magic number 
that was not acceptable, so I had to grab the first line of the 
original, create a file with that alone in it, then add the 
copied file to that, and delete the overlap to get a working 
file.  (head -n 1 filters.sml > newfile.xml ; vi newfile.xml 
and then r copied-file, edit as needed, then write out that).

I also created folder names for the new folders needed, by 
finding the existing folder names and creating new ones with 
strings replaced as needed for the new folder names.

I made no attempt with absolutely no filter rules.  That too 
might be worth a try.

Once again, thank you for you time.  If the intent is to keep 
evolution's formats private, I will probably have to accept the 
resulting problems or find a new e-mail application.

Cheers!

jim b.

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