
Mozilla Thunderbird is almost 20 years old, and the open-source company is working hard on the future of one of the most popular offline mail clients available on the market. Donations are booming, but Mozilla plans to further increase the program's chance for survival with additional revenue streams. It works if you take off the "skip inbox" criteria.Forward-looking: In recent years, Thunderbird has turned into a successful stand-alone software product thanks to the newly-established MZLA subsidiary. It causes the thunderbird filter to not see the incoming message and so it doesn't act on it. It didn't work.Īlso in my above example, my gmail filter has "skip inbox". You've got to set it up in both tools.Īn update: I tried the mozilla-x-keys method for my thunderbird filter.

I said "sortof" above, because it's not really synchronized in an automatic sense. Select the gmail folder in the "Run selected filter(s) on" dropdown box at the bottom of the window To apply to existing messages, in the "Message Filters" window,.Tools > Message Filters > Select from "Filters for:" dropdown box > New.Īdd your criteria (eg: Subject contains )Īdd your actions (eg: "Tag Message", and select the new tag you created.).Create a new Tag with the same name as the gmail label.In gmail in a browser: Settings > Filters > Create a new Filter:ĭo this: Skip Inbox, Apply label "/nbusers" And I create an like-named tag in Thunderbird.

The gmail label to a message gets applied from my imap gmail filter. I was also looking for a way to syncronize gmail labels and thunderbird tags. Here's a link to the Knowledge Base on tags I will check to see if I can find a way to filter your inbox for tags (moving them into folders).įrom the Thunderbird Knowledge Base on filters So as of yet I don't think this feature is available. Therefore Thunderbird's tags are not the same as the labels, in other words: there is no Gmail counterpart. It seems more people wanted this feature, but you should realize Thunderbird's folders are Gmail labels.
