Unsolved Inbox Folder Not Available

[beejay30]

Why is "Inbox" not one of the default folders seen in the mail panel? How can I get "Inbox" to appear here? I get that the "received" and "unread" together amounts to the same thing, but it's honestly confusing!!

[yojimbo274064400]

@beejay30 said in Inbox Folder Not Available:

Why is "Inbox" not one of the default folders seen in the mail panel?
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Likely because an Inbox view would provide little to no value over the existing views, i.e. Unread, Received views.

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How can I get "Inbox" to appear here?
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Such a feature does not exist and the existing request for this received little support, see Add "Inbox" to "All Messages" | Vivaldi Forum

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I get that the "received" and "unread" together amounts to the same thing, but it's honestly confusing!!
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Understandable given Vivaldi are introducing concept not seen in other clients (AFAICS)

[dbsq54]

@yojimbo274064400 said in Inbox Folder Not Available:

Likely because an Inbox view would provide little to no value over the existing views, i.e. Unread, Received views.

Nonsense! Inbox is a sorting place, a tool. Received includes every message ever, including all those archived and filtered, and serves no realistic purpose.

[mib2berlin]

@dbsq54
Hi, then the Vivaldi mail client is not for you, it will never get an inbox.
You can do all what you need in All Messages or Unread.
As @yojimbo274064400 mentioned, the Vivaldi mail client work quite different the other mail clients.
What looks like folders are just views, for example.
If you get used to it you will never go back.

Cheers, mib

[dbsq54]

@mib2berlin I now see that I can exclude archived messages in Received via filter, where they are included by default. That might have been a more helpful answer. I have tried and abandoned Vivaldi Mail several times in the past. Thanks for your encouragement; perhaps this time will be different!

[WildEnte]

@dbsq54 please consider voting for this feature request which would add a toggle for filtered emails
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/77039/new-filter-toggle-filtered-or-special-to-filter-for-only-cc-d-support-inbox-zero-and-more

As well as this request to narrow down received by account
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/54019/filter-by-account

[dbsq54]

@mib2berlin In fact - don't know why I didn't spot it earlier - the Vivaldi clearly shows the inbox (I am not using a Vivaldi email account).

Scroll to the bottom, "All accounts," and there are all the folders as seen in any other email client.

[mib2berlin]

@dbsq54
Yes, it add all folders of an IMAP account.
Sure you can work there but if you have more than one account it is better to work in Unread than to jump from Inbox to Inbox.
It depends on your use case and workflow.

Cheers, mib

[mossman]

@dbsq54 said in Inbox Folder Not Available:

@mib2berlin In fact - don't know why I didn't spot it earlier - the Vivaldi clearly shows the inbox (I am not using a Vivaldi email account).

Scroll to the bottom, "All accounts," and there are all the folders as seen in any other email client.

Yeah, not sure why the other responders didn't mention this. It's the first thing I thought reading the initial post. I very rarely use the individual accounts since (like the others) I much prefer Vivaldi's filtering, but if you want to see your account's inbox - it's right there at the bottom of the panel.

[dbsq54]

Better still, the panel contents can be removed and order changed under Mail Settings>Mail Panel Order and Visibility.

I haven't even got into filters, but for once flags and labels are making sense as a productivity tool in a way that has eluded me in other email clients.

[dbsq54]

@beejay30 I think you can mark this as solved. Mail Settings>Mail Panel Order and Visibility

[WildEnte]

Quoting myself from another thread with similar needs

@WildEnte said in Unified Inbox:

There are different ways to realize a unified inbox. There's an existing feature request to make filtering for different accounts easier in which I have compared some different mail clients' approaches.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/54019/filter-by-account/2?_=1726829481357

I also think that a favorites category would help, see this request
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/92066/mail-panel-favorites-category-ability-to-reorder-and-hide-items-within-a-category