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Alias accounts inside primary acct - Tbird easiest way to sort messages sent / received by alias address

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GMX is the mail provider. Under their system, creating an alias address is inside the primary acct. Mail to / from the alias address is dumped in the primary inbox / Sent.

Question is, if you want to separate the alias' messages - more or less automatically, in Tbird is it easier to create a separate acct for the alias (using login PW for primary) or create sub folders in Tbird & filter rules to move the alias (received & sent) msgs into folders?

I should say, in this case, the alias will be used most of the time. The primary will be kept to catch infrequent messages.

With a separate IMAP acct, could probably create filter to delete msgs not to an alias address, so fewer msgs to sort thru.

As far as composing, it would be easier to create a separate Tbird acct for the alias(es), vs. remembering to change the identity in the From: field. Or make the alias identity the default.

Another issue is, for POP accts, GMX only sends spam reports 1x / day showing sender & subject. They have no setting to receive spam in POP accts. For OTHER POP accts (no alias involved), I created an IMAP acct, just for times when important mail gets flagged. That works fine when not dealing w/ alias accts inside a primary.

For a while, a separate alias IMAP acct pulled its messages out of the primary POP acct, but it was downloading the same messages more than once. After the 1st D/L, the body of duplicate msgs was empty. I may / may not have gotten that fixed, but I don't really need a POP IN / SENT box, and duplicate list to sift through in a separate IMAP acct - which is what the IMAP acct does.

I'm not sure if GMX allows changing existing accts from POP to IMAP or vice versa. But I CAN access POP accts on their server via a Tbird IMAP acct. It just gets kind of messy.

Another odd - probably unrelated thing is how Tbird keeps creating more IMAP *.msf files. Like INBOX,msf, INBOX-1.msf, INBOX-2.msf ... INBOX-5.msf & multiple msf files for Sent, Draft, Spam. Most are < 2 kb & very few files, so folder size or not compacting aren't likely causes.

Some new ones appear created the same day or 1 day after the previous one. None of the POP accts do this. Thanks for any ideas.

GMX is the mail provider. Under their system, creating an alias address is inside the primary acct. Mail to / from the alias address is dumped in the primary inbox / Sent. Question is, if you want to separate the alias' messages - more or less automatically, in Tbird is it easier to create a separate acct for the alias (using login PW for primary) or create sub folders in Tbird & filter rules to move the alias (received & sent) msgs into folders? I should say, in this case, the <strong>alias will be used most of the time.</strong> The primary will be kept to catch infrequent messages. With a separate IMAP acct, could probably create filter to delete msgs not to an alias address, so fewer msgs to sort thru. As far as composing, it would be easier to create a separate Tbird acct for the alias(es), vs. remembering to change the identity in the From: field. Or make the alias identity the default. Another issue is, for POP accts, GMX only sends spam reports 1x / day showing sender & subject. They have no setting to receive spam in POP accts. For OTHER POP accts (no alias involved), I created an IMAP acct, just for times when important mail gets flagged. That works fine when not dealing w/ alias accts inside a primary. For a while, a separate alias IMAP acct pulled its messages out of the primary POP acct, but it was downloading the same messages more than once. After the 1st D/L, the body of duplicate msgs was empty. I may / may not have gotten that fixed, but I don't really need a POP IN / SENT box, and duplicate list to sift through in a separate IMAP acct - which is what the IMAP acct does. I'm not sure if GMX allows changing existing accts from POP to IMAP or vice versa. But I CAN access POP accts on their server via a Tbird IMAP acct. It just gets kind of messy. ********* Another odd - probably unrelated thing is how Tbird keeps creating more IMAP *.msf files. Like INBOX,msf, INBOX-1.msf, INBOX-2.msf ... INBOX-5.msf & multiple msf files for Sent, Draft, Spam. Most are < 2 kb & very few files, so folder size or not compacting aren't likely causes. Some new ones appear created the same day or 1 day after the previous one. None of the POP accts do this. Thanks for any ideas.