Can I set up a seprate mailbox fr each person that emails me so when they send me an email it will go into their mailbox

Question

can I set up a separate mailbox for each person that emails me so when they send me an email it will go into their mailbox. I have been using Eudora for 20 years and one of the things I really liked about it is that each person could have their own mailbox instead of coming into the general Inbox.

Answer 1

Thunderbird doesn't come with preloaded filters, so I guess yours came as a result of importing from Eudora. The surprising thing about that is that Thunderbird is quite prompt to disable filters if there are changes such as account or folder names, so one wouldn't necessarily expect imported filters to "just work" and be activated by default.
If you open a message, right-click the sender's address and choose "create filter from" I think you'll find it's actually less complicated than that convoluted method you used in Eudora. And the presence of previously defined filters will be irrelevant since you'll be creating your own new filter.
Thunderbird's main weakness is that you must create the folder before setting up a filter to move messages into it; it doesn't let you define new folders on the fly.
There is a QuickFilters add-on that provides a drag and drop technique, but personally I don't think the manual method is so difficult as to justify the drag and drop approach.