Recipients assigned a personalised folder

[Arlev]

I've just moved over from Forte Agent. Thunderbird doesn't do everything I'd like it to but there's one specific action that seems to me like a timesaver.

Forte Agent allowed incoming email to be assigned a specific folder so that all emails from and to a person could be collected together.

There was a setting in the Address Book where it could be manually assigned or the program could be 'trained' by dragging an email into an active folder and the recipient (email address) would be remembered.

So, all my emails from and to 'John Smith' went into the folder that I'd created called 'John Smith'. It saved having to drag them there and to have to retrieve them from 'Sent' if I initiated one.

[Jon]

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[JBrickelt963]

Great idea! What would be really practical as well (I don't know if this has already been suggested in another topic or planned in the roadmap), would be to be able to recreate automatic message filters like those on Desktop. For example, I receive an email from X and I want it to go into the ‘Mail from X’ folder, currently all you can do is go to the PC and open the Thunderbird client to do this.

[MattAuSupport]

Have you considered using a saved search and leaving things where they are?  Saved search (ctrl+Shift+F) creates a virtual folder that is updated when the folder is selected.