Smart folders?
I see that Thunderbird has the idea of "Unified Folders" -- which I interpret as their version of "Smart Folders". As far as I can tell, this is an all-or-nothing option. What I would like the ability to do is to define my own "Smart Folders" to link material I need in that context. I can't seem to find any information on whether this is possible, or it's not obvious (to me).
I am running Thunderbird 115 Supernova.
Thanks.
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Use File/New/Saved Search and choose the desired folders.
I did try that before posting, I forgot to mention. It does not work.
An example, I want to show all spam into one folder "Spam All" -- doesn't work.
But I'm not sure that the saved search option is the same as a "smart folder" in terms of how it works. I wonder if would make sense for Thunderbird to have a feature like that?
It works here, by selecting the Spam, Junk and Bulk folders from 3 different accounts, and selecting 'Match all messages'.
In TB, the Unified folders view is a type of saved search.
I re-configured it, will see what happens.
I tested it by moving a file to a Spam folder and this time I could see it. However, I noted a change here in that I can't drag-and-drop the message from the Spam folder back to my Inbox. The message was read, I mark it as "not spam" it moves the message back to Inbox as unread. Separate issue, but seems like a UI matter.
A Spam folder is managed by the mail provider (TB uses Junk), so it might be their policy to mark 'not spam' messages as unread when they're moved to Inbox.