[ale] how to hide a folder in thunderbird?

[Sean Craig]

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Michael B. Trausch said the following on 12/6/2007 11:29 AM:
> On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 10:09 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote:
>> i have been using my thunderbird with gmail's imap and like how things
>> are going, but now i want to hide the "all mail" folder.
>>
>> is there a way  to do this?
> 
> Some mail clients permit you to ?unsubscribe? from one or more IMAP
> folders (and additionally to subscribe to others that might exist, too).
> If you can find such functionality in TB, that would probably help.

Gmail's IMAP servers do not yet support subscriptions. :(

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78761&topic=12815

Also, they specifically say that you can't remove the All Mail folder.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=82367&topic=12815


Sean C.
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