[OT] Folders under INBOX (re: g)

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 01/18/2013 03:59 PM, g wrote:
> On 01/16/2013 04:47 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:
> <>
>
>> So just to clarify for someone like me.....who has a three sub-folders
>> under my GMail account running on TB. You're saying I should move those
>> folders to the "Local Folder" on my computer and away from under the
>> Inbox for GMail? I have filters set up in TB that send certain e-mail
>> addresses to those folders.....will the filters still work when I move
>> them? (I have folders for the Fedora Users Group....the CEntOS Users
>> Group...and the Scientific Linux Users Group!) Just want to know before
>> I go and move them
> i presume you are addressing your question to me, so i reply with;
>
> also read my reply to "staticsafe".
>
> *no* *email folder* should be placed under another _email_folder_.
> especially if the parent email folder is an Inbox.
>
> if you do not want an 'email folder' to reside at same level as your
> account's Inbox, you should create a *parent folder* and then move
> 'email folders' below it. *do not* store emails in the _parent_folder_.
>
> if you drag and drop a thunderbird 'email folders' to a new place,
> any filter associated with that 'email folder' will be re-written by
> thunderbird. you should also get a notice window telling you that the
> filter is re-written.
>
> as they sit on your hard drive, *email folders* are _files_.
> *parent folders* are _directories_.
>
> *parent folders* will show as "parentname.sbd" and there will be 2
> associated files "parentname" and "parentname.msf".
>
> *email folders* files will show as "emailfolder" and "emailfolder.msf".
>
>
> open up a file browser and look at just how things are laid out
> under the *Mail* directory in your profile directory;
>                                                  \|/
>    /Home/username/.thunderbird/????????.default/Mail/
>          yourname              8 alpha/numeric
>
>
>> also these same folders are also existent on the
>> GMail servers, will my moving the ones on TB affect those as well?...
> when you move thunderbird email folders and parent folders on your
> system, i can not say what will happen on server if you are using
> imap and if it ties back to server.
>
> if using pop3, no.
>
>
>
Thanks for this important info!....


EGO II
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