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Labels are color-coded, and can be customized. Unfortunately, there are only currently five labels available.

Labels are "categories" to classify your emails. Fortunately, label names and colors can be customized, see tip below. Labels are a nice way to visually create relationships between email, and allowing you to isolate certain emails from the rest, (as we'll discover in the Thunderbird Search Bar tutorial.)Ĭonveniently, labels are color-coded. The International Organization for Standardization is an organization that standardizes technologies to ensure that vendors' products (even competing ones) can communicate with each other. The default for Latin alphabet languages (like English, French, Romanian…) is Western ISO-8859. The second tab of the Properties window is called Retention Policy, and allows you to define how old emails are handled: automatically delete after so many days, automatically delete read messages, or follow the settings you set for server.Ĭharacter Encoding is the way Windows (and other operating systems) treat text content. From the properties, you can rename the folder, determine its character encoding, and enforce character encoding on a per-folder basis. To view or change these settings, right-click on the folder, and choose Properties. Thunderbird lets you define custom behaviors for folders, independent from the email account's settings.

To copy an email to a folder, rather than move it, drag it and drop it to the destination folder while holding down the Control key ("Ctrl"). To move emails from your inbox to a folder, or from a folder to another folder, simply drag it from the current location to the destination folder.Īlternatively, you can use the Message menu, choose Move, and pick the destination folder from the unfolding menus and submenus representing folder locations. (Similarly, to create a sub-folder, right-click on a folder and chose New Subfolder.) To create a new folder, right-click on the "Local Folders" label and choose New Folder. The easiest, and most intuitive way to organize your emails is to use folders.