Mail Folders

The Mail Folders screen allows you to either select a different mail folder to view or to create, rename or delete mail folders (mailboxes) and directories. The default set of mail folders on __SERVICE__ is INBOX, sent-mail and received. The Mail Folders screen looks something like the following:-


Directory Filter
Refresh | Transfer Folders | Favourite Folders
[mailbox] INBOX   
[back]      
[mailbox] received Rename Delete
[mailbox] saved-messages Rename Delete
[mailbox] sent-mail Rename Delete
[directory] testdir Rename Delete


Create with name
Refresh | Transfer Folders | Favourite Folders

The bars above and below the folder listing

These have a group of common elements at the right hand side of each bar, and a group of elements unique to each bar at the left hand side.

Top bar - unique elements

Directory Filter

This allows you to select a subset of your mail folders.

Common elements

Refresh checks the contents of the directory on the __SERVICE__.
Transfer Folders allows you to upload a local mail folder to __SERVICE__ or download a mail folder from __SERVICE__ to your local machine.
Favourite Folders displays a screen where you can choose a folder, or folders, to be added to a list of favourite mail folders. This list appears in the pull-down listing in the common toolbar, replacing the list of default folders. Once you have one or more Favourite mail folders an expanded set of actions becomes available. These are described on the help page associated with the Favourites selection screen.

Bottom bar - unique elements

Create with name

This enables the creation of mail folders or directories. For example selecting mailbox and typing a name such as projects will, once the Create button has been pressed, cause the display to change to include the newly created mail folder.

The folder listing

You can keep all your mail in different folders in one directory, or you can create a storage system of directories that contain mail folders (the example given in this help text). Using a storage system is recommended as it reduces the risk of a particular mail folder becoming too large. Large mail folders put an unnecessary strain on __SERVICE__. There is a per-mail-folder size limit on __SERVICE__ - if your inbox exceeds this mail can not be delivered immediately and will be queued until you have deleted or moved messages; you also risk having messages sent to you returned to the sender if your inbox remains over-sized for too long.

While you can create mail folders in any directory, you need to be aware that different mail clients default to looking in different places. We would advise that you create all the directories and folders that you intend to use for mail under the mail directory (which is the default).