Gmail Important folder not showing in Thunderbird
I am using a program called MailWasher (MW) to preview all the emails of six accounts. I have just had a case where it showed an email from Gmail, but when I did a Get Mail it did not appear. Logging directly into Gmail I found that the message had been place in the Important folder. Doing a Reply in Gmail, again I saw an entry in MW but again, a Get Mail did not show anything. Am I missing something here? I'm not sure just what rules Gmail is using to decide whether am email is 'Important' but I don't like the idea of Thunderbird not being able to display a message just because it seems to be put somewhere other than Inbox.
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When using IMAP email you need to subscribe to the folders that you want to see and unsubscribe to the ones you don't. You do this under the File menu using the Subscribe button. In IMAP the messages and folder stay on the server and you just remotely view them and manage you mail. If it is in the Important folder and you are not subscribed to that folder you will not see it.
As for how gmail does anything, that is anyone's guess. I am sure they have some description of how to use their system on a page somewhere. I choose not to use gmail.
Last time I checked I was using POP. The Subscribe option doesn't have any accounts against it.
If you are using POP then Thunderbird, or any other email client, only connects to the Inbox on the server. To see anything else you will have to go to your providers web mail page.
I have followed the instructions that Gmail seem to provide about this. It doesn't seem to be working at all. I now have to ask their forum what is going on.
It's been a long time since I used gmail in anything other than IMAP, so I'm not sure what happens under POP.
Their operating principle with email is to label it, and then display it in the appropriate view. So mails tagged as "Important" will appear when you select Important, which looks like a folder. In the IMAP world, a message labelled Important will appear both in its original folder (usually the Inbox) and in the Important folder. I'm surprised that yours appears to be moving messages.
Go to the gmail webpage and in your account settings, look for settings to manage these folders. I disable all the naff pre-categorization that google wants to do for me, such as Important and Social, Promotions, etc.