Gmail, meet Thunderbird. Now work and filter!

November 30, 2005 9:35 AM

I have an awful lot of email filtered/labelled and filed within Gmail. When I download it via POP using Thunderbird, is there any way of it automatically going into specific folders within Thunderbird? :)
posted by badlydubbedboy to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

This is why people are demanding IMAP support in Gmail, which might be down the road.

But you can definitely set up Tbird filters to do a lot of this but you won't be able to automagically replicate your Gmail folder structure so far as I know.
posted by dhartung at 9:53 AM on November 30, 2005

Response by poster: So how do I set up Thunderbird filters to do just that? I'm assuming they'll all download the same way, and with no flags for say read/unread ?
posted by badlydubbedboy at 2:47 PM on November 30, 2005

There's nothing in the headers indicating how you've tagged your messages? Because if there is you could make a complex set of rules to file it.
posted by aubilenon at 4:34 PM on November 30, 2005