Managing Folders

Your email folders in Thunderbird are similar to folders you have on your disk drive. The mail folders are located in your profile, with Local Folders being located in a subfolder called mail. This would look like this: \profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\mail, where xxxxxxxx.default is your profile.

Under Local Folders, Thunderbird creates some more folders:

• Inbox The default location in which Thunderbird places your newly received email messages. You can set an option to send incoming emails to a folder specifically for the account or another account's folders.

• Drafts Folder where you save messages without sending them. At a later time, these messages can be reopened, edited, and saved or sent.

• Templates Patterns used to create email messages. The template can have formatting, text, and header information included.

• Sent Folder where a copy of each email you send is saved. This way, you can later review any messages you have sent.

• Trash The location where deleted messages are placed. The Trash folder can be emptied explicitly, or Thunderbird can empty the trash when closing.

New folders can be created by right-clicking an existing folder and selecting New Folder in the context menu.

Looking at Figure 11.1, you see Thunderbird, as of the end of the last chapter. You see News & Blogs, Local Folders, a set of folders for one of the two email accounts ([e-mail]), and a set of folders for the other email account ([e-mail]).

Figure 11.1. Folders, in the default Classic Thunderbird view, are listed on the left side. They are displayed in a tree-view format.