Delete account folders and sub-folders
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Delete account folders and sub-folders
I've searched far and wide to try to find out how to delete a folder from one of my mail accounts in Thunderbird. Seems like it would be an easy task to accomplish. One of my accounts has 2 Draft folders and I would like to delete one of them as well as some other unused folders. Anyone know how to accomplish this? I have both yahoo and gmail accounts.
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Re: Delete account folders and sub-folders
Moving this to Thunderbird Support...
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(Always choose the "Custom" Install.)
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(Always choose the "Custom" Install.)
- DanRaisch
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Re: Delete account folders and sub-folders
How is the account set up in Thunderbird, as POP or IMAP? Find out using menu path Tools->Account Settings->Server Settings->Server Type at the top right of the dialogue.
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Re: Delete account folders and sub-folders
They are imap
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Re: Delete account folders and sub-folders
In that case it may be that you are seeing a Draft folder as it exists locally and a Draft folder as it exists on the IMAP server. Under Tools->Account Settings->Copies & Folders you can choose where Draft messages will be stored. If you don't need to access Draft messages from more than your one primary computer, you can set that to store the Drafts on the local system and unsubscribe from the IMAP server Drafts folder. The same factors may apply to other "duplicate" folders.