On Tue, 2016-11-01 at 16:37 +0100, Bart Vliegen wrote:
Thunderbird has its own implementation of Gmail-style IMAP. You can read about it here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-gmail
I may have lost some context, but my Evo GMail accounts look _exactly_ like the pictures of Thunderbird's email integration with GMail in the link you've provided. This is how it worked by default, I didn't have to do anything special. I've attached a small picture.
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