On Saturday 11 June 2016 22:17:08 MC Cason wrote:

> On 06/11/2016 08:03 PM, Jon Elson wrote:
> > On 06/11/2016 03:19 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> On Saturday 11 June 2016 07:04:07 John Thornton wrote:
> >>> people using thunderbird what shows up in the correspondents field
> >>> of this email?
> >>>
> >>> JT
> >>
> >> I am not using t-bird John, a long standing dislike for the
> >> difficulty in adding new folders and such.
> >
> > Huh?  I have a massive array of folders and subfolders.  You click
> > on file / new / subfolder and it asks you for the new folder name
> > and the existing folder to put it under.  I have it set up to sort
> > incoming mail for all the mailing lists into their own folders from
> > the subject line.
> >
> > Jon
>
>    There's an even simpler way to do it.  For the email address you
> want to create the folder in, right click "Inbox", and click on "New
> Folder...".  Type the name of the folder.
Which always, without fail, gave me a subfolder in the inbox.  If I used 
something like mc to move it back up so it was visible on the same layer 
as the inbox, t-bird always lost its mind.

>    To add a subfolder, right click the folder you want it in, and
> click on "New Subfolder...".
>
>    Using this method, you can pretty much put a folder anywhere you
> want.  Right click on "Local Folders" (or whatever your account name
> is), and click on "New Folder..."
>
>    Thunderbird is highly configurable.  There's a About:Config editor
> in Thunderbird, like there is in Firefox.  It's just harder to find.
> Go to Edit>Preferences>Advanced>Config Editor
>
>    I have been using Thunderbird since 2008, and using custom folders
> and message rules, pretty much anything can be done.  I have 4 email
> accounts, and 6.8G of emails sorted.  As of this message, my LinuxCNC
> Folder alone has 54,443 emails going back to 09/2008.  I find the
> search feature in Thunderbird to be pretty easy to use, and I use it
> often.  It saves me from having to ask a lot of questions.

I can say the same about kmail, plus it Just Works, for years at a time.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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