can I set up a seprate mailbox fr each person that emails me so when they send me an email it will go into their mailbox
can I set up a separate mailbox for each person that emails me so when they send me an email it will go into their mailbox. I have been using Eudora for 20 years and one of the things I really liked about it is that each person could have their own mailbox instead of coming into the general Inbox.
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Not a mailbox but folders or subfolders, yes. You use Message Filters to automate the movement of messages into appropriate folders.
Choose where you want the new folder, right-click and choose the New Folder or New Subfolder option as appropriate.
Then go to Tools|Message Filters to set up a filter. Alternatively, it might be a tad easier to view a message, and select the sender in the panel above the message, and choose "Create fillter". This will open the Message Filter dialogue with the sender's name/address filled in.
The few times I tried Eudora I found it hard work. I'm surprised that if you managed to use Eudora successfully yet this aspect of Thunderbird has apparently fazed you. ;-)
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Ok your instructions were helpful in setting up a sub folder but when it came time to put the email in that folder I was and am totally lost. It's strange that you would comment o Eudora like that. I mean how much easier can it get. An email comes in from someone new you decide that you want to keep their emails so you high light it click make filter and then it does. Then you right click on it and it says transfer to and then you transfer it to the new filter that is setting there on top of all you mailboxs. One that is done then you click and drag the new filter / mailbox into the folder you want it to be in. Pretty simple. I do what you said under tools and there are 708 filters already there with a check next to each one and I don't see the one I'm wanting to deal with right now. So not so simple to me.
Thunderbird doesn't come with preloaded filters, so I guess yours came as a result of importing from Eudora. The surprising thing about that is that Thunderbird is quite prompt to disable filters if there are changes such as account or folder names, so one wouldn't necessarily expect imported filters to "just work" and be activated by default.
If you open a message, right-click the sender's address and choose "create filter from" I think you'll find it's actually less complicated than that convoluted method you used in Eudora. And the presence of previously defined filters will be irrelevant since you'll be creating your own new filter.
Thunderbird's main weakness is that you must create the folder before setting up a filter to move messages into it; it doesn't let you define new folders on the fly.
There is a QuickFilters add-on that provides a drag and drop technique, but personally I don't think the manual method is so difficult as to justify the drag and drop approach.