[Users] [Bug 3944] Failing IMAP account on startup

[Paul]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:21:20 +0000
Jeremy Nicoll <jn.ml.clwm.729 at letterboxes.org> wrote: 

> I'm not.  You just suggested someone delete and re-add 
> account definitions, and I was basically asking if that 
> would cause collateral damage to other definition files.

Well, yes, you are. This thread is for [Bug 3944] Failing IMAP
account on startup, which has nothing to do with filtering or
deleting accounts.

> > I just tested, and unfortunately they just get left behind.  
> 
> I was going to go on and ask if there's an easy way to
> find a set of 'orphan' definitions and update them to
> (presumably) a new internal account number.

If the filter rule is assigned to an Account and that Account gets
deleted, then its filter rules get removed also.

If the filter rule moves a message to an IMAP mailbox, and that IMAP
mailbox is removed, the filter rules does not get removed. Which is
messy, but the message to be moved does not get lost, it just gets
dumped into the inbox, as if unfiltered.

with regards

Paul