I like the fact that TB maintains separate inboxes' etc. for each account, but I know a lot of you want everything dumped into 1 account. Here's one solution: Choose 1 account to be your main account, and have all the other accounts automatically forward to this main account. This can usually be done with a simple option in your webmail settings or by adding a '.forward' file in your home directory. You can have multiple identities when replying, sending, etc if you want to maintain an illusion of multiple accounts. I suspect that the people who do want it dumped into 1 inbox don't particularly care about identities, but I could be wrong...
-vivarey
For people with multiple email accounts...
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I can only speak for myself, but <b>if</b> all messages get dumped into the same inbox, then where the message came from is more important than ever; i still want to filter/flag based on their destination. It's not that I don't care where the mail came, it's that I don't care to click three, four, or five folders to read them all.
.forward is not an option to alot of people, either because they don't have access to a shell, or simply because it becomes hard to distinguish the intended recipient at a glance.
I wouldn't mind a fix for it, but there's more pressing things to be done right now (like releasing 0.1).
.forward is not an option to alot of people, either because they don't have access to a shell, or simply because it becomes hard to distinguish the intended recipient at a glance.
I wouldn't mind a fix for it, but there's more pressing things to be done right now (like releasing 0.1).
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Use filters
Create all your mail accounts as usual. Set up filters
1. All Mail goes to Local Folders->Inbox (for example)
2. Label mail depending on which mail account it comes from
Now you can see all your mail in one folder, but labelled depending on where it came from
1. All Mail goes to Local Folders->Inbox (for example)
2. Label mail depending on which mail account it comes from
Now you can see all your mail in one folder, but labelled depending on where it came from
Shit never just happens - someone's got to make it!
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My workaround (dangerous?)
Hi.
I have multiple accounts and I don't like to scroll throu all those to read my emails.
Here what I did.
1. Create all your accounts as usual.
2. Decide which shuld be your main account (I picked up the one at the top)
3. From the Account settings/option, change the mailboxes of the other accounts (ie: not the main one) so that they point to the mailboxes in the main account (Sent, Templates, Drafts, Trash)
4. Close Thundrbird
5. Open the file prefs.js with e text editor (c:\windows\application data\Thunderbird\Profile... ).
6. Replace the path of the inbox of the other accounts with the inbox of the main account.
If you open Tb, you should see that every account presents the same messages! (basically, they are reading the same file).
I don't know if this has any drawback..
I have a problem, but I don't know if it derives from my tweaking.
Here it is: I can delete one (or more) message once, but if I try to delete other messages, then anything seems to work.
I have to close Tb and open it again, delete the other messages ... and so on.
Weird.
Does it happen with any Tb or only with mine?
Hope this helps.
Michele
I have multiple accounts and I don't like to scroll throu all those to read my emails.
Here what I did.
1. Create all your accounts as usual.
2. Decide which shuld be your main account (I picked up the one at the top)
3. From the Account settings/option, change the mailboxes of the other accounts (ie: not the main one) so that they point to the mailboxes in the main account (Sent, Templates, Drafts, Trash)
4. Close Thundrbird
5. Open the file prefs.js with e text editor (c:\windows\application data\Thunderbird\Profile... ).
6. Replace the path of the inbox of the other accounts with the inbox of the main account.
If you open Tb, you should see that every account presents the same messages! (basically, they are reading the same file).
I don't know if this has any drawback..
I have a problem, but I don't know if it derives from my tweaking.
Here it is: I can delete one (or more) message once, but if I try to delete other messages, then anything seems to work.
I have to close Tb and open it again, delete the other messages ... and so on.
Weird.
Does it happen with any Tb or only with mine?
Hope this helps.
Michele
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rom wrote:>Label mail depending on which mail account it comes from
And how would you do that? The default labels are Important, Work, Personal, To do, and Later. Do you know of a way to create new labels so that you could label messages to indicate what account they came from?
Tools/Options/Labels Totally editable.
Cobalt
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I've solved this problem for myself by setting up a filter that checks both the sender and receipent's email address for a period . since all addresses have a . in them then it forwards to my inbox of choice. I can still tell which account it came from because I can see which address it was sent to.