Inbox for Mozilla Thunderbird?

georgiac

I have just bought a new pc to replace my steam powered one and it is befuddling me.

It has windows 8 which is freaky but the worst part ( for me) is that it doesn't have Outlook Express.

I tried windows mail live and didn't like that so I downloaded Mozilla Thunderbird which looks OK.

We have several email addresses coming in to gmail, yahoo, talktalk etc.

My question is this - is it possible for all new emails to drop into a New Email folder rather than have 7 or 8 individual inboxes?

Thanks

agrinnall

I'm a bit puzzled, because my Thunderbird seems to do exactly what you want by default, and I've had to set it up in order to do something different.

I have 3 email accounts set up, with the main one going to Inbox and the others having message filters to redirect incoming mail to their own folders. I've just removed the filter from one of them and sent an email to it which as I expected appears in Inbox. I can't see why yours wouldn't work that way.

However, if it doesn't, than one way may be to set up message filters on all accounts to have every email sent to the same folder.

georgiac

Thanks for the help, agrinnall.

How funny, yours does what I need and mine does what you want - should we just swap pc's!

Can I ask an even dumber question in that case - how do I open the general Inbox?

At the mo. I have a list of my 6 email addresses down the left hand side and under each are subfolders - inbox / set / deleted / spam etc.

What I was hoping was just to have one Inbox, one Outbox and one Sent folder like I had on Outlook Express.

Sorry if I am not explaining it correctly. Thanks again, gc

agrinnall

It's so long since I set mine up (and moved it onto new PCs at least twice) that I'm not really sure what I did. Mine has Local Folders as the top level, and under that are Inbox, Sent and all the other folders I've created over the years. The individual email addresses don't have their own folders in the way yours do. I wonder if mine has retained a setup that could be done with a previous version, but can't with the current one?

spud17

Are they set up as POP3 or imap accounts?

Did you allow Thunderbird to automatically pick the port settings and create the accounts?

Ages since I did it, hope I remember correctly, but if you are using POP3, and want everything to go to one Local Folder, then you have to configure it manually.
When you let Thunderbird configure the accounts itself, it will automatically create folders for each account.

ps. it's well worth persevering with, you just have a temporary glitch, it's a great program.

Tigsteroonie

Mine is set up like yours, OP - 6 email addresses, each with their own Inbox, Sent, Junk etc. I prefer it that way

I think you can set up a new folder in Local folders, so could you have a local 'Inbox' and then use filters to re-direct mail down to that?

Within the account settings, you seem to be able to say where you want Sent items saved so, again, could you have a local folder called 'Sent' and then set up all your email accounts to save down into that?

I don't know if the above would work or not, sorry!

georgiac

Thanks agrinnall, it may be a different version?

Cheers spud, I was lazy and let it do it for me - that may be the issue. I agree it looks really decent compared to windows live which I didn't get on with.

Tigsteroonie, at least I'm not going mad.

I think I will try to live with it for a while and see if I get used to it - I'm just concerned I will miss new emails as I have to llok through 6 folders instead of one every time.

Having said all of that - why can't I just have outlook express - I knew how to use that.

Lum

Click the Menu tool bar button, then go to Folders -> Unified. This will do what you want.

Thunderbird used to set itself up that way by default but in newer versions you have to explicitly turn it on.

As for the other Windows 8 problems, allow me to plug my own thread for making it behave more like previous versions.

georgiac

Lum, you are a star! Many thanks, that seems exactly what I was looking for.

Off to study your other thread now.

agrinnall

Glad you got it sorted, I think Lum's solution confirms what I suspected that the set up I did years ago and carried forward through many versions to the current one isn't what would happen by default if I was now starting from scratch.

georgiac

As always this site proves an incredible source of first person experience and knowledge.

I had hunted high and low without success and had some really helpful replies - so thank you all for your help.

GC