Re: “Filter account is missing. Please select account to use with filter "<filter>"”

Erik Quaeghebeur kdepim-users at equaeghe.nospammail.net
Fri Feb 24 10:53:05 GMT 2017


> > I guess this is probably true technically, but those filters were always
> > manual ones, I never created references to any specific account. I guess
> > it was done automatically upon creation. I'd consider that a bug, should
> > I file it as such? (I don't know whether it is still relevant for the
> > KF5 version.)
> 
> There's an indirect reference: if you have a filter like "If X then move 
> message to folder Y", then the folder Y belongs to an account and thus
> the 
> filter references an account :-) The wording of the error is not maybe
> clear on 
> that, I think it comes from very early times of KMail.

None of the filters were like that. They were all mail-modifying
filters. But I can believe that under the hood still some folder
references exist.
Anyway, some cargo-cult point-and clicking in the filter dialog seems to
have fixed the issue.

Many thanks for your continued help,


Erik



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