{"id":162,"date":"2007-06-26T20:01:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T01:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2007\/06\/26\/check-your-mail-in-thunderbird\/"},"modified":"2008-05-31T18:56:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T23:56:23","slug":"check-your-mail-in-thunderbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2007\/check-your-mail-in-thunderbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Check your mail in Thunderbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes Thunderbird makes me scratch my head.  Case in point: Thunderbird defaults to checking only your Inbox for new email, and none of the subfolders under the Inbox.  To check subfolders, you have to right-click on EACH ONE, go to properties, and turn checking on.  That&#8217;s silly &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Checking_for_new_messages_in_other_folders_(Thunderbird)\">this Mozilla article<\/a> seems to agree with me.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s me.  I make heavy use of server-side whitelist filtering on my IMAP server to categorize incoming emails.  If I get an email from a friend from Fort Myers, it goes in the Fort Myers folder.  I hope I&#8217;m not the only one doing this&#8230; if so, people, you&#8217;ve got to try it.  Once you set it up, you&#8217;ll be happily in control.  Get an important email, and you can read it right away.  Another joke email from Aunt Gertrude &#8211; well, you&#8217;ll get to it when you have time.  And with Chatter Email on my Treo, I can assign different ringtones to each folder, instantly telling me if I have an important (RING!) or unimportant (bzz) incoming email.  <\/p>\n<p>The other email tool I have to have is spamassassin.  It uses Bayesian filtering, and it&#8217;s now smart enough to keep spam out of my life.  Sigh&#8230; what a relief.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, to make Thunderbird check all your IMAP folders for mail (duh), do this:<\/p>\n<pre><code>Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Config Editor\r\nStart to type [mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new] into the filter box.\r\nDouble-click the [mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new] line to change it from false to true.\r\nEdit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Connection Timeout -> Bump up to 120 seconds (if needed)\r\nEdit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Show expanded columns in the folder pane (double click to set to true)\r\nThen you can click on \"Unread\" and\/or \"Total\" in the small column control at the upper right corner of the folder pane.<\/pre>\n<p><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Up up and away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes Thunderbird makes me scratch my head. Case in point: Thunderbird defaults to checking only your Inbox for new email, and none of the subfolders under the Inbox. To check subfolders, you have to right-click on EACH ONE, go to properties, and turn checking on. That&#8217;s silly &#8211; this Mozilla article seems to agree with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks-tips-tools","category-chatter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-2C","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}