how to disable gmail inbox sync with desktop inbox
I have a gmail account (admin@....) with 4 Alias' emails configured (info@, sales@, support@, projects@).
I have set up my gmail with multiple inbox from Google Labs so an email from an alias will (1) bypass and not show up in the gmail inbox (2) go directly to a label/folder and (3) appear in a multiple inbox set up for that alias, i.e. I have a gmail multiple inbox for each alias.
On Thunderbird, I have created 4 email accounts, one for each alias. I have only subscribed to the gmail folder that matches the alias i.e. the alias for info@... has a label/folder called "Info" and only "Info"has been subscribed to for the thunderbird account for info@...
However, I cannot disable the default Inbox on each of the 4 thunderbird accounts, and the IMAP location property for these 4 inboxes in the main gmail inbox.
This means that when an email is sent to admin@... (my gmail account email address), a copy is sent to the 4 thunderbird email accounts.
I would like to either;
a) Disable / delete the default inbox account for each of the thunderbird email accounts so it does not show; or
b) edit Folder Properties / General / Location so that
imap://info%40...@imap.gmail.com/INBOX
can be changed to either;
imap://info%40...@imap.gmail.com/Info imap://info%40...@imap.gmail.com/Sales imap://info%40...@imap.gmail.com/Support imap://info%40...@imap.gmail.com/Projects
respectively for the different thunderbird accounts
Regards Michael
Solution eye eponami
Team,
I have given up on my original idea. Basically I have simply set up 1 imap account for my gmail email address and the Thunderbird interface maps all the gmail labels as folders in Thunderbird - so the "inbox" in Thunderbird is for admin@ and the alias emails are the Info, Sales, Support folders (which are labels in gmail).
Consider this case closed.
Regards Michael
Tanga eyano oyo ndenge esengeli 👍 1All Replies (4)
I don't follow you all the way in what you want. In Gmail you can automatic forward any mail to another account. A filter can move them to different folders in Thunderbird (and in Gmail). GYF (Google is Your Friend ?)
In gmail I have one email account (admin@) and 4 aliases setup (info@, sales@, support@ and projects@).
In gmail the aliases do not appear in the admin@ inbox, instead they appear in 4 folders (Info, Sales, Support and Projects) and also using the Google Labs plugin for multiple inboxes, emails sent to the aliases addresses appear in their own inboxes on my gmail screen (with the help of the plugin just mentioned)
In Thunderbird, I have 4 imap accounts (info@, sales@, support@ and projects@). I have configured these to only subscribe to the relevant gmail/alias folder for the account in question i.e. Info folder is subscribed by the info@ Thunderbird account and Ive unsubscribed the Sales, Support and Project folders, etc, etc.
This all works fine, except...
The inbox for all 4 Thunderbird accounts (info@, sales@, support@ and projects@) automatically defaults to the imap inbox of my gmail admin@ (the primary gmail address).
Result, whenever I get an email sent to admin@ inbox, it replicates to all 4 Thunderbird account inboxes.
So I want to decouple the inbox of my 4 Thunderbird accounts, from the gmail admin@ inbox, by either (a) pointing them to the 4 individual gmail folder/labels (Info, Sales, Support, Projects) or (b) disable the Thunderbird inbox folder altogether (since I'm getting the emails via the folder/labels ok at the moment.
regards Michael
I have trouble with systems involving an "alias". I don't know exactly what the term means, nor what it should achieve, and different email providers might use this word or concept in different ways.
My approach is just to let each account do its own thing, and then use Saved Search folders in Thunderbird to aggregate certain types of messages.
So I have Saved Searches for specific projects, "recent" (last 7 days) messages, Junk/spam, etc. I have projects that span several years, and they are Archived annually to keep older messages to hand but out of sight. I also have project-related Saved Search folders that collect the annual archives into one place, for each current project, so searching the back history for a specific project is easier.
Yes, it's more rather than fewer folders in Thunderbird, but I don't need to look at the ones I don't want to see.
All this means I only have to learn about how Thunderbird does it; I don't need to learn and apply each email provider's idiosyncrasies. I would manage aliases using filters for incoming and Identities in Thunderbird for sending.
Solution eye oponami
Team,
I have given up on my original idea. Basically I have simply set up 1 imap account for my gmail email address and the Thunderbird interface maps all the gmail labels as folders in Thunderbird - so the "inbox" in Thunderbird is for admin@ and the alias emails are the Info, Sales, Support folders (which are labels in gmail).
Consider this case closed.
Regards Michael