i have set up Thunderbird, but following your steps, so that incoming emails will go into Local Folders.. then in to the sub directory's, but they dont, they sit in my main INBOX, and all the settings that i have done, dont work, no matter what i set up.. ive followed your instructions and done every thign correctly, but its still doesn't work. i have one set up a while back, and now it goes to a different directory, and thats the only one that works.. so what can one do to fix this problem..?? as you can see from the pic, they are set up, and yes every thing is going wrong...