Qualcomm 4.3 Creating Mailboxes and Folders, Creating a Mailbox or Folder Using the Mailbox Menu

Eudora User Manual Creating Mailboxes and Folders

Note. Eudora performs the auto-marking behavior only when you manually select or preview messages, not when it performs actions such as automatic mail checks or filtering.

Creating Mailboxes and Folders

Eudora lets you create mailboxes to hold messages, and folders to hold mailboxes.

There are three ways to create mailboxes and folders.

■Using the New command from the Mailbox menu and folder submenus.

■Using the New command from the drop-down context menu in the Mailboxes window. See “Using the Mailboxes Window” on page 101. Click the page number to display the topic.

■Using the New command from the Transfer menu. See “Transferring Messages” on page 106. Click the page number to display the topic.

Note. Depending on whether your incoming mail server uses the POP or IMAP protocol, there are some differences in the way mailboxes and mail folders are created, stored, and managed. For more information, see “Mailbox and Folder Management: POP vs. IMAP Server” on page 103. Click the page number to display the topic.

Creating a Mailbox or Folder Using the Mailbox Menu

To create a new mailbox or mail folder, do the following.

1From the Mailbox menu, choose New, or from a mail folder submenu (to put the mailbox in that folder). The New Mailbox dialog box appears.

New Mailbox dialog box

2To create a mailbox, type in the new mailbox name and click OK. The mailbox is created and added to the Mailbox and Transfer menus and to the Mailboxes window.

3To create a mail folder, type the name of the new mail folder and select the Make it a folder option. Click OK to create the folder. The New Mailbox dialog box appears again.

4Type the name of a mailbox to create within the new folder, then click OK. The new folder and its mailbox are displayed in the Mailbox and Transfer menus and in the Mail- boxes window.

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