[Users] File containing filter rules?

[Paul]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2024 02:24:48 +0000
Malachi Constant <malachi42 at posteo.net> wrote: 

> I have a rather larger number of filter rules, and would like to search
> through them to locate a particular item.  I can of course go to
> 
>     Configuration -> Filtering
> 
> and then scroll through the list.  But since the list is long, doing so
> is (a) tedious, and (b) unreliable (I'm likely to miss something).

If you give your filtering rules a Name, then you can just type the first few
characters to jump to that item in the list, (as it happens for folder names
in the move/copy folder selection dialogues).

> The rules must be contained in a file somewhere, mustn't they?  I
> should like to have a file --- ascii, or something that can readily be
> converted to ascii, would be preferred --- that I could search through
> with, say, a text editor.
> 
> Might it be possible to obtain such a file?  If so how?  I can find no
> trace of such a file in ~/.claws-mail.

If you look at the man page (`man claws-mail`) you will find, in the FILES
section, amongst other listings:

       $HOME/.claws-mail/matcherrc
              Filtering and Processing function configuration.

HTH
with regards

Paul