Email

[pcslookout]

Can anyone tell me why I have these different folders on each my email accounts? How do I get rid of them so all 3 are the same ?

This is with IMAP not POP3.

Ok I want it to look like my first email account and get rid of the folders circled below.

Is that possible?

 

[deustroop]

Adjust settings in View Settings for each account

 

[Ichinisan]

IMAP works with folders on the server. That's the fundamental difference between IMAP and POP. Multiple client devices using IMAP will stay in sync with each other and with webmail, showing the same folders and messages (and the same read/unread state).

Apple's email clients will consolidate Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Junk, etc. It sometimes gets confused by naming variances and you'll have to manually mark the special folders.

Sent
Sent Items
Sent Mail
Sent Messages

Spam
Junk
Junk E-mail
Bulk

Deleted
Deleted Items
Deleted Messages
Trash

With the special-purpose folders recognized, Apple email clients show consistent aliases, regardless of the folder's actual name on the server.

I don't know if Thunderbird lets you display a different alias for a folder.

You might be able to rename those folders. The webmail system for each account might even have options to define the special purpose folders. Any changes you do there might cause error messages in an IMAP client until you refresh/reset/update the folder list (trying to refresh the contents of a folder name that doesn't exist anymore, for example).

 

[pcslookout]

Is there anyway to keep using pop3 but have my email sync on my computer and iPad + iPhone ?

 

[Dahak]

Is there anyway to keep using pop3 but have my email sync on my computer and iPad + iPhone ?

In a partial fashion. You would have to make sure the settings on all devices are set to "keep a copy of the email on the server for X days". This way if your phone looks for new email it will get them, and then the computer will get them as well.
But this will lead to duplicate emails on both devices and it will not sync if you had replied on one devices vs the other
As well as it will not sync your sent messages either.

I would stick with IMAP or have Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo pull your POP3 emails to it and then sync to that( Gmail/hotmail/yahoo)

 

[Ichinisan]

Windows Live Mail 2012 allowed you to hide the “local folders” section. I think it still would display the local “Outbox” folder separate from that.

Does Thunderbird not have a similar option?

 

[Ketchup]

Tbird does. I mean, by default the local folder is only has trash and outbox, but if you right-click, you can add whatever folders you want.