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

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Thursday, February 16, 2017 2:53:29 PM CET Erik Quaeghebeur wrote:
> Daniel Vrátil 2017-02-16 14:41:
> > > Since removing an IMAP account, on KMail start, I'm getting the
> > > 
> > > following message at the top of a pop-up window for selecting accounts:
> > >     “Filter account is missing. Please select account to use with filter
> > >     "<filter>"”
> > > 
> > > where ‘<filter>’ corresponds to each of my (all manual) filters.
> > 
> > You have mail filters that refer to folders that no longer exist now that
> > you removed the IMAP account, so you should remove those filters from
> > Settings ->  Configure Filters.
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> 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.

> 
> > If you don't want to lose them for good, you can use the  "Export" button
> > to save them to a file so you can import them in the future.
> 
> Thanks, I'll try that.
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Erik


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