Re: [OT] Finding Mail.app rules and junk filters
Re: [OT] Finding Mail.app rules and junk filters
- Subject: Re: [OT] Finding Mail.app rules and junk filters
- From: Mr Tea <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:38:05 +0000
On 17 Dec 2003, at 2.53 am, Marc K. Myers wrote:
I'm setting up a new iBook and I'd prefer not to go through the
lengthy process (again) of teaching Mail.app what I consider to be
spam. I'd also like to avoid reentering all my rules. Can someone
tell me what files I need to transfer to the new machine to retain all
the stuff I've built up for my desktop machine? Thanks.
The essential items are in your user 'Library' folder. In the
Preferences folder, look for 'com.apple.mail.plist' (rules are in
there). All the other mail stuff is in ~/Library/Mail, including spam
definitions, which reside in the file 'LSMMap' (or possibly 'LSMMap2'
if you're using OS X 10.3).
BTW - Upgrading to Panther messed up Mail's previously impeccable
record with spam. It started letting everything through, no matter how
I trained and re-trained it. There were other, similar problems being
reported in the usual online forums, and the consensus seems to be that
its a botched upgrade from Apple that fails to transfer accumulated
spam definitions (usually, two LSMMap files are found in an upgraded
copy of Mail's library folder - perhaps they're arguing with each
other). I got so frustrated with the lack of spam control that I ended
up ditching all Mail's prefs & support files and starting over. That
was actually OK. It was easy enough to import the contents of my old
mailboxes, and I took screenshots of all the rules/preference/settings
windows before nuking the prefs, so at least I had an easy reference
source for restoring my settings. The 'virginized' copy of mail weeded
out about 85% of spam right off the bat, and after a week it's better
than 99%. Not too shabby.
HTH
Nick
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