I like the current folder views "Unified Folders", "All Folders", "Favorite Folders", etc. But it would be preferable if we could have a view where we can organize all of it ourselves. I personally have a lot of emails connected to thunderbird, and it works really well, but it leads to even the unified folder view looking really, really ugly. As I have a full list of all of my emails there, it feels very disjointed and clunky.
It would be nice if I could make my own groupings and folders for structuring my folder pane, similar to how we already can in so many other parts of the interface.
I want thunderbird to be my one-stop shop for all things email and chat, and it currently is, I currently love the look of the client, it was the one thing holding me back from using it before. But I really think the client could go one step beyond and allow for more grouping, sorting, organizing, and customizing of that left folder pane. This same problem persists with the calendars too, too many calendars leads to a really clunky and mess list of calendars.
So maybe we could get some sort of custom view system, or the favorites system could be revamped.
I support this idea. For example, in Outlook, there is a lot of junk (folders) that I can't delete because they are systemic and I would like to hide them. Also, there are user folders (there are many), most of them I would like to hide as well. And the button to turn off the view of hidden folders. You can add a button to hide folders. And also, which is very important, the ability to move them arbitrarily, so far this is implemented in one of the outlook clients. This is very much missed when you have a lot of emails and letters (which you filter and group).
I am currently using a workaround with local folders, but then there is a situation where I don't use the folders (with email names, and then I would like to hide them).
For example, on the outlook web client, I use workarounds because I can use ublock and hide the garbage from the interface.
Grouping Email Accounts into groups (folders) is great. However, today when I was adding a new email account I made for my media devices, I realized I have too many email accounts, and a search bar over the Folder Pane to search just email accounts would be tremendous for those of us who have many email accounts.
I have 30 or more email accounts, some personal, others for clients, still others for various website admin. One screen isn't enough. I want to be able to make a group and put email accounts in the group and have a flag pop up when there's a new email in the group, just like an individual email account has. (Same alerts on groups as on individual accounts, but want to see count of NEW emails rather than unopened, or perhaps both.)
I looked at the link in WSMWK's post, don't see how it's the same, but then, I'm still absorbing my morning coffee. 😉
I am strongly agree with this idea and it really would be a helpful for the people that have 10s of email accounts and they want them to add them in groups with the folder creation options for each group.
Also a strong vote for this. One of the main reasons I was using Postbox (Which has being sold and will be demised end 2024) was the ability to drop accounts into folders - in my case Work and Personal Most working in digital these days will have multiple email accounts and this is vital to allow focus.
Would like to have a feature like this, currently using seperate mail programs for private and work. It could also be another button in the sidebar, like a quick switch between different mail spaces. Like a private mail space, work mail space etc.
