Gmail accounts, filters and folders
Hi! I am requesting some help with setting up thunderbird in a particular configuration. I have a gmail account and I essentially want to use thunderbird to download and save all of the email in the account including spam folders automatically. I want the emails to stay in the local folder no matter if it is deleted on the server or not.
I successfully set up the account and have been able to access emails. I set up a filter to take all incoming emails and copy them to a local folder. The rule is run before junk processing. It does copy over all emails except that it does not copy over any from the spam folder. I see that there is a way to go to the filter menu and pick the specific folder and then sync that to the local folder but I don’t see any way to set this to be done automatically.
Is there any way to have the spam folder contents copied over to a local folder without doing it manually?
I appreciate the assistance!
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I assume you have set the account up as a POP account, as IMAP will not do what you want. For the SPAM, I suggest creating a filter that runs for new mail to copy the messages.
No I have it set up as IMAP. Why would IMAP not work to get the spam folder? I thought it was the other way around where POP could not fetch anything except the inbox folder.
I do have a filter setup to match all (this is not for specific spam, I am actually trying to get all of the emails copied including all spam emails), however the filter does not run on the spam folder. It only runs in the inbox.
I assumed POP because you want it saved on PC, which is a strength of POP. With POP, there is no need to copy to local folders. Not that you can't be successful with your approach, but you did ask for ideas.
So does POP allow you to get emails in the spam folder/label? Everything I’ve seen online suggests only things within the inbox and not folders/labels like spam, etc can be downloaded via POP…
I’ve seen these and other threads online… https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9132843/how-to-download-emails-from-junk-folder-using-pop3?rq=1
https://superuser.com/questions/99968/can-i-access-gmails-spam-message-folder-using-pop3-imap
Some providers allow it; some don't. More info at this thread: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1270539 And as I said, it was just a comment. For me, if saving all messages on PC was primary, I would use POP, but you also want to capture all SPAM.