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I have many fiters and a new mail account. Now I need to transfer them. I already tried the outdated plugin mentioned in Export Thunderbird filters to import them in gmail - but it doesn't work with my up-to-date Thunderbird version anymore.

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Do I need to copy/paste some profile files or is there no way to copy/move filters from one account to another?

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Copy msgfilterrules.dat from one profile folder to the other, it's that simple!

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  • Does this also work across version differences and OS differences?
    – 0xC0000022L
    Commented Aug 7, 2020 at 11:16
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Seems I can't comment (reputation) but anyhow it's case sensitive:

$ ~/.thunderbird/jbm20yqp.default$ find . -iname "msgfilterrules*"
...../ImapMail/imap.home/msgFilterRules.dat

Uppercase F and R

AFYI. I made it a symlink, so I can use the same rules in multiple accounts (spam is spam wherever it's seen :-) )

It seems my answer was unclear:

  1. The original answer of "Copy msgfilterrules.dat..." is basically correct
  2. It was then questioned WRT "OS differences"
  3. On Linux (and I'd guess all OS who honour "case" in filenames, the file is actually called: msgFilterRules.dat (note the camel-case)
  4. The original solution proposed COPYING the file, which works but means you need to make future edits in each copy if the rules.
  5. Instead I proposed making a symlink (ln -s) so two or more accounts can share their rules
  6. The symlink works, but be aware the file does not appear to be read every time it's used (probably only at startup) so edits may not be seen until the next restart
  7. I ensure I make edits to the ORIGINAL rules (original account) in case the implementation of "edit" recreates the file and so breaks the symlink.
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