In continuation of this post:
For decades, IMAP folder names were shown in Thunderbird with their name on the server, with the exception of localised versions, where standard IMAP folder names for special folders (Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Templates, Trash, Junk) were localised.
Every since the folder naming strategy has chancd in this ticket, users have been running a riot. The latest action is happening in this ticket. After Thunderbird's director lectured users why his way is the right way, and what was happening for more than two decades was wrong, users are getting increasingly frustrated. Here some quotes:
Director:
Regarding the folder names changing, that was a conscious decision and a wanted change to mitigate the problem of inconsistent naming from different servers.
Users:
Censorship already killed this comment: Like myself and my wife and my associates and we have have being doing it since email was invented. Many of us have multiple work, personal, family, etc, etc accounts and the braindead change just makes our lives a little bit more miserable. Thank-you for making decisions for us. It really helps. NOT!
When clicking that Spam folder, what I do see in the status bar is 'Opening folder Bulk'. Also, the Folder Properties for the folder now called 'Spam' show a 'Bulk' folder in the Location field. How is this consistent?
Not to mention the subscribe panel.
Sarcasm: Thanks for "mitigating" all my problems. Much improved user experience. 10/10 ⭐
I [...] hope this useless change will be reverted.
More sarcasm: what a mess! fantastic idea, really genius ...
This is an idiotic change, more dev-nanny assumptions about what users want. [...] This is not at all useful. Please fix this BACK!
Latest update: Now the proposal is to go back to the original state, see this ticket. Do they know what they're doing?