and remove the word 'hello' from where we had set. Well, if there's everything 'clean' now, we can back to change the IMAP ROOT to the iCloud root folder. When we back to Configuration, we will see only this folders: – Inbox (Because it is the 'root' this 'folder' is not shown in iCloud) – Drafts – Templates – Sent Messages – Archive – Deleted Messages If you have not left loose folders assigned to something, you delete or change to a site outside of 'hello'. Here both the same name: Junk, so no problem.Ĭlick OK. – Templates, there's not that folder in iCloud, then create one for that function, both in iCloud root folder, and inside the folder 'hello' that we have provisionally created, named Templates.ģ) In Spam > Destination and retention > Move messages to spam: Folder 'spam' in: iCloud. > Copies & Folders, we must make one by one by selecting the folders with the correct names: – When sending messages, automatically: Add copy: Other: Sent Messages in iCloud – Archives, Save message files: Other: Archive – Drafts and templates: – Drafts (this being the only one that match between TB and iCloud, so use the default). We can see, while we are changing emails from the web in iCloud, as they appear different messages in each folder, to see how it behaves.Īlready changed ROOT IMAP and created the folders with the correct names, proceed to link them:ġ) In Server Configuration > Server Settings > When you delete a message: Move it to this folder: Deleted Messages in iCloud.Ģ) In Conf. (Remember to quit Thunderbird each time you make any change to be shown, them are not instantly displayed) For the 'iCloud' IMAP server directory features: hola In Thunderbird, do this: click Settings > Server Settings > Advanced. Within create the following folders: Archive Drafts Sent Messages Deleted Messages

Since we can not CREATE the correct folders because if you try to do that, iCloud tells us that ALREADY THERE, let them inside ANOTHER FOLDER:įor example, create a folder that call 'hello' (or any other). This means that, for example, display a 'Thrash' folder in the iCloud web, and a 'Deleted Messages' in Thunderbird (as the other types any other relevant). The problem is that if we select Thunderbird he select folders 'default', he goes CREATE its own folders, with the Thunderbird-style names, not with those who iCloud recognized as good. If we not previously changed the IMAP root folder from Thunderbird, maybe other folders that were previously created may be displayed is them were not entirely eliminate, either by caching or for any other reason.

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