IMAP Preferences in Thunderbird

Hi all,

ok, it would be extremely nice to be able to store your imap preferences 
for IMAP on the mail server itself, so that when you go to another 
machine, you can install Thunderbird and then just log in to your IMAP 
account, and it would pick up all of the filters, and other settings.

It would seem that you could do this by simply saving a mail message 
that Thunderbird looks for in a particular folder.

That would also be cool to sync between clients on different machines 
(say at work and at home).

Things like a dozen filters are difficult to synchronize...

Maybe this is a note for a different group that would make it as an 
extension, but wouldn't that be a great function ????

I know FireFox does something similar with bookmarks and the such...

Tim.