Re: google mail and thunderbird -

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan gmail com>]

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 18:17 -0500, Jacques B. wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin wildblue net> wrote:
> >
> >  My ISP, Wildblue.net, has switched all their e-mail accounts to "gmail."
> >
> >  I am accustomed to having all my mail neatly sorted into directories
> >  with Thunderbird mail.
> >
> >  Suddenly I have almost 800 messages dumped into one list broken into
> >  pages of fifty lines.  I found a rudimentary filter system but it
> >  doesn't appear to sort my mail into directories as I am accustomed to?
> >  Or I may be missing something ...
> >
> >  Can someone tell me how to deal with this mess?  At least point me in
> >  the right direction.  I am still in shock and not sure what to do next!
> >
> >  Bob Goodwin
> >
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> 
> When I started using Gmail, my first reaction was the same as yours.
> Where are my folders?  But after getting used to the filters, it's
> actually pretty good.  Think of your filters as your folders.  Set up
> a filter for each "folder".  Then you set up a filtering rule where
> possible to automatically apply labels to mail as they come in much
> like you would have mail sent to a folder as it comes in.  You can
> apply multiple labels to a single message.  So for example a message
> could be labeled "Fedora List" and "Apache" if that message related to
> both Fedora listserv and to apache at the same time.
> 
> Having said that you can POP or IMAP a gmail account.  Simply go under
> account settings and enable POP or IMAP (whichever you want).  Newer
> versions of Thunderbird actually allow you to create a Gmail account
> so it configures the ports properly for you.  You can then
> send/receive messages from Thunderbird and have them saved in your
> webmail Gmail account as well so you can access your mail on the road
> just as easily as from home.  You'll really appreciate gmail if you
> use listservs much at all.  I don't delete anything.  I can use the
> power of Google to search all my messages, only those labeled Fedora
> List, or whatever.

I'm doing that right now via IMAP, but using Evolution instead of TB.
Works great except that Gmail filters have one limitation compared to
folders: they're not hierarchical. This can get messy when you have lots
of folders/filters (as I do).

poc