[ale] All Mail Folder

[Scott Castaline]

Can someone tell me what would happen if I delete the "All Mail" folder 
under[Gmail} in my folder list in Thunderbird? I originally started with 
folders for different lists and groups under my Local Folders using 
filters on my Thunderbird Inbox to move the incoming messages into their 
respective folders. I started to notice that at some point possibly 
around 3.1 (T'Bird) using the Unified Folder View a folder called 
Archives and All Mail was a sub-folder from there. I also started 
getting indicators for unread mail in that folder which essentially was 
a duplicate of the messages that my filters had sorted, but were all in 
order of receipt not by gmail labels. I did not want to have to either 
click through all of the messages there to get to the sorted folders or 
right clicking to mark folder as read everytime. No changes to property 
values would change this behavior.

So I then went and disabled all of the T'Bird filters, went to gmail and 
created the labels to resemble my Local Folders hierarchy as well as the 
necessary filters to sort all inbox mail accordingly. Well it still 
makes me go through [Gmail]All Mail on new messages and the "folders" do 
not indicate any unread messages. Since it's a synchronised copy of 
what's on the gmail server if I were to delete the folder would it just 
get recreated or would all my mail on the server get deleted or will it 
give me the behavior that I'm looking for? Sorry for the loaded 
question. This is why I asked for suggestions on setting up for IMAP. 
I've got the account part ok, simple, but now I want to be able to click 
on the "Read Next Unread Message" button and it'll go to my ALE folder 
and go through the messages, or to my dmcrypt folder if I'm following a 
thread otherwise just right click to mark "folder read".