[ale] All Mail Folder

[Jerald Sheets]

My understanding is that this is all your mail on Gmail.  Every "folder" is actually a label, not a folder.  Every email you currently have lives in this folder and is presented to you in various ways. 

So, I wouldn't delete that folder at Gmail.  The problem if you delete it locally could vary.  If it is local because it's at Gmail, you may delete it all at Gmail.  If some sort of way it's not connected to Gmail itself in some sort of way, I guess theoretically you could delete it, but I still wouldn't do it.  What's one folder?

--j


On Aug 12, 2010, at 9:13 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:

> 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".
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