590075 - Ability to automatically view messages organized by tags (instead of folders)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 425359

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, enhancement)

Description

[Vadym Krevs]

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My company has just switched from GMail back to Exchange, and I immediately started to miss being able to organize email using gmail-like labels. 

In principle, something similar to gmail labels could be implemented by using tags as labels:
a) Set up a unified Inbox (that gathers together the inbox and sent mail)
b) Create a filters that apply different tags to incoming/outgoing email
c) Create saved search folders that match by tags

The problem is that if one has many tags - and I have around a dozen - setting all this up is a hassle.

My request is that TB by default includes an option to display email organized into virtual folders, with each virtual folder corresponding to a distinct tag. 

Ideally, the "All Folders" -> "Unread Folders" -> "Fav folders" ->"Recent folders" -> "Unified folders" folder option should include a "Tags" option, which if selected would display messages for each distinct tag in a different virtual folder. Basically, I would like a), b), c) above to become a one-click operation.



Reproducible: Always