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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/305295220;132659582;e _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
