Comments on: Checking IMAP Sub-Folders with Thunderbird

By: DennisF

DennisF — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:11:02 +0000

I’m on Thunderbird 8. The “mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new” property have been changed to “mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new”.

By: djsmiley2k

djsmiley2k — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:36:25 +0000

This option appears to have been renamed to mail.server.default.check_all_folders_for_new

Not sure if it works yet, waiting to get some emails which will get filtered…

By: Marius

Marius — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:42:00 +0000

There is no option “mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new” in Thunderbird 6. I didn’t see any similar option in the GUI either. Why would they remove this?

By: stephas

stephas — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:22:15 +0000

Thanks Pounray!

That work, this is still broken with thunderbird in ubuntu as of this writing.

By: ben

ben — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:48:46 +0000

Awesome, why this isn’t the default…

By: Pounraj

Pounraj — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:44:14 +0000

Iam using Thunderbird 3.0. Recently faced same problem of not showing subfolders under Inbox in Thunderbird.

As per suggestions made in this forum I tried changing the “mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new”, to true AND subscribed to the subfolders, which I can see. But on trying to open any of the subfolders.

But, I tried creating a new subfolder by right clicking on inbox. then i chosed to subscribe the folders. It worked and showed by previous subfolder lists under Inbox. Thanks for everyone guidance. Please get in touch if you face similar problem.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:16:27 +0000

Thanks. I started out with Thunderbird on Ubuntu Intrepid, but because I could not get it to update subfolders, I switched to evolution. After finding this “fix”, I switched back to Thunderbird. Evolution was just too slow for me. Thunderbird is much snappier.

By: Raja

Raja — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:30:55 +0000

Thank You. I was looking for this for a long time. Got it working .

By: nimack

nimack — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:40:06 +0000

I followed this, changing the “mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new”, to true AND subscribed to the subfolders, which I can see. But on trying to open any of the subfolders, I get the message that the Inbox/subfolder ‘does not exist’. It does exist, so I wonder if this is because of something I have failed to do in Thunderbird, or a matter of how my institution has set up its Exchange Server.

By: siikah

siikah — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:01:02 +0000

Thanks man. This bug has been annoying me for months!