in Thunderbird what is the difference between the folders called Old Mail and Old Mails?
I have two folders next to each other, set up by Thunderbird. They were already in place when I first started to use it. One is called Old Mail and the other is called Old Mails.
What is the difference between the folder Old Mail and the folder Old Mails?
Why was it decided by Thunderbird's designers to have two of these - rather than just the one?
Vsi odgovori (6)
Or is it simply because the people who built Thunderbird made these two folders with the same sloppiness as they created the rest of this bug-filled, annoying rubbish?
Neither one of these folders are created in Thunderbird by default.
So how do they just arrive there then? Perhaps a stork put them there.
Spremenil gordgoodfellow
If you are using IMAP and not POP then you are viewing folders on your providers server. Someone or something created them and it was not Thunderbird.
But it sounds like you just want an excuse to hate on Thunderbird. There are other emails clients out there. Feel free to give them a try.
I think you'll find that hate has to be earned. If Thunderbird has earned my hatred then it has worked hard to do so. (And what does "hate on" mean?)
I've been using email for decades and it is surely a simple enough thing to supply. Thunderbird seems to supply lots of quirks that people don't need and yet not supply the things that people do need.
Surely it is not beyond the wit of engineers to come up with something which is simply serviceable. I'm using Mail which is bundled with the wretched Windows 10 and it has its own set of issues. Why does Microsoft have a policy of making every product worse than the one before? Windows Live Mail provided a perfectly good interface that did everything you could possibly want (for example). Yet it is now not supported.
So the only alternative people have is to just accept second best like Thunderbird and whatever Microsoft decides you should have.
When you first started using Thunderbird, did you install and run it or did you take over the profile from a previous user?
When you first install and run Thunderbird it has no mail accounts except 'Local Folders' special default mail account which only would display the 'Outbox'. Therefore it has no folders and no email address mail accounts. Thunderbird would have prompted you to create a mail account.
I'm not sure what type of mail accounts you use, but POP mail accounts by default only have the following folders: Inbox, Drafts, Templates, Sent, ,Archives, Junk and Deleted (some versions have 'Trash' instead of 'Deleted'). All other folders will be either created by you or imported by you.
Imap mail accounts need to subscribe to see folders. These folders will be exactly the same name as those shown on the server which you can see if you logon to your webmail account using a browser. These will be the default ones available plus any you have created.
The 'Old Mail' and 'Old Mails' folder are not created by Thunderbird by default. You mention that you have used or using 'Mail' in Windows, did you import any messages from the 'Mail' program? What type (POP or IMAP) of mail account do they appear in? Or are they in 'Local Folders' mail account?