When looking at the Inbox folder you will see a merge of all mail new and old from all accounts which are children of the Inbox sorted by date. If you have three accounts, each with 1 new message in the Inbox then your special Inbox will display 3 new messages. We need a list of special folders with their accounts as child objects.Įach special folder is a cumulative of all the accounts. Because we know now that we don't know everything we need to know we are building in steps to learn as we progress. Here are the incremental steps that build towards a finalized version of the new folder pane. Mail.app uses a similar system for displaying mailboxes and accounts.This is the bug that will be tracking the work on this improvement. The current folder pane breaks up mail by the different accounts, each with their own set of special folders: inbox, sent mail, drafts, and trashĮach account duplicates at least an Inbox and Trash folder, plus possibly other duplicate special folders.īug 446306 - 'New Mailbox centric folder pane' Simplify the folder pane view from an account centric layout to mailbox centric layout.Īdd the Thunderbird:Message Archive special folder.Īdd Thunderbird:Starred Searches that span accounts.

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