
(See Priority Inbox overview for more details about this Gmail feature.) Important: contains messages that Gmail has flagged as "important". Starred: contains messages that were starred (either by Gmail or Thunderbird).

Spam: contains messages that were marked as spam (either by Gmail or Thunderbird). Any messages that you see in the inbox will also appear in the /All Mail folder. There is also a set of special sub-folders for the "" folder:Īll Mail: contains all of the messages in your Gmail account, including sent and archived messages. In the example shown below, the folders at the same level as the "" folder ("g+", "Personal", "Receipts", "Travel" and "Work") correspond to Gmail labels. Similarly, if you move a message to a folder in Thunderbird, Gmail will create a label with the folder name and assign it to the message.

When you apply a label to a message in Gmail, Thunderbird creates a folder with the same name as the label and stores the message in that folder.

In this implementation, Gmail labels become Thunderbird folders. Gmail uses a special implementation of IMAP.
