Finding emails listed via All Mail
Using Thunderbird into gmail. If you click on All Mail you get all your mail of course. It is difficult to find the originating folder. The header Locations only gives you the location All Mail which is useless. I guess you could go into gmail and fiddle with Tags and Folders but haven't tried. Anyone know an easy workaround. And of course we should all be clamoring for a fix
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LOL. What? This All Mail folder is a Gmail thing, nothing to do with Thunderbird, and not present in any other IMAP server. I wouldn't even recommend subscribing to that folder to begin with…
Of course you should use webmail for things like that and complain to Google if you cannot do what you want there, that's the only place where you may get full access to all the Gmail non-standard features and particularities…
All Mail is very useful when you want to do a search or when you want to clean up. Despite your misgivings, do you know a way to do what I want? On a side note, why does Thunderbird have a Location header if all it shows is the location of the folder you just opened.
do you know a way to do what I want
You may be able to see that in Gmail using webmail, not with an IMAP mail client such as Thunderbird. The concept of a message appearing in a folder called All Mail but its "location" being some other folder is a Gmail labels thing, doesn't exist in IMAP… And even in Gmail that would be technically incorrect because the location of all mails in Gmail is All Mail, all other folders being mere labels…
why does Thunderbird have a Location header if all it shows is the location of the folder you just opened
Because you may be looking at the message from some place other than the folder where it is stored (e.g. unified folders, search results).
Modified by DavidGG