Update on Gmail and Imap
Last week IMAP was finally enabled for me. I set it up according to the instructions from google for Thunderbird 2.0. So far it’s been good, I have less sorting going on than when I was using POP. Some funny labels started showing up in the web client though. [Imap]/Drafts for example. On top of that, I spent about 40 minutes writing up an email the other night before sending it off. When I next logged in to the web client, I was surprised to see roughly 10 additional threads to the conversation. Every time Thunderbird had apparently auto-saved. Gmail thought it was a new revision of the thread. Thankfully, I was the only one who saw this behavior and the recipients had only seen a single email from me. In any event, I did a little searching to see what I could do about the new labels and possibly the bizarre threading. I found a good article on Lifehacker that gave a good explanation on how to clean things up.
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One thing that helps is to set the root folder to be [Gmail] under the account settings in Thunderbird. At least that way, the Trash, Drafts and Sent Mail folders will all be “top level” folders.
I redid all of my labels to fall under [Gmail] so that everything appeared nicely (e.g. Receipts -> [Gmail]/Receipts)