How can I organize my folders in Thunderbird?

Question

This is a current snapshot of my Thunderbird. As you can see folder structure varies between my accounts.

I'd like to reorganize my accounts' folders such that they look like to my live.com account. My live.com folder structure is exactly what I want, but my first account for example, Drafts and Sent folders exist inside inbox folder, which this doesn't look so good for me. Or in my Gmail account what's that magic [Gmail] folder? I want to remove it. And finally for my yahoo there is no sent or drafts folder at all.

So my question would be how can I reorganize these folders either in my Thunderbird client or at the server side in order to every accounts look like to my live.com account?

Answer 1

Gmail

go to the account settings for your GMail account, there to Server Settings and click the "Advanced" button. In the field "IMAP server directory", you enter [Gmail].

the "other" account

Might work similarly, but instead of [Gmail], try INBOX. (the dot at the end might be significant!)

Yahoo (POP3)

Since this is not an IMAP account, you don't have access to all the folders that might be available on the server through a webclient. You could create a Sent-Folder and set Thunderbird up to copy every sent email there, but it would still not be synchronized with the real sent folder on the server.

The best workaround would be to simply create an IMAP account inside Thunderbird to access your Yahoo stuff and stop using POP3. Of course, this only works if Yahoo actually offers you the possibility to use IMAP.