Selectively query folders for new emails

Hi folks,

I have two questions:

• Is it possible to exclude folders from being queried for new emails?

I have many folders in my maildir, each of which has many sub-folders, with many sub-sub-folders. My Thunderbird logs in and then queries one folder after the other and this takes a very long time. However, there are only 5 folders into which I automatically sort emails with sieve, and I would like to query only these 5 folders. The other folders are folders into which I sort emails manually. It makes no sense to query them. How could I achieve this?

• How can I exclude folders from being displayed in the subscribe window, i.e. that these folders exist, e.g. they are available but cannot be subscribed to, and therefore cannot be displayed in the email client? I plan to introduce a all-times "non-deletable" spam folder, which contains a copy of all spam emails that this user received and which I use to teach spamassassin, without the user being able to see, empty or delete this folder, and without him being able to infect himself with potentially infected emails.