Eudora User Manual Managing Your Mail on the IMAP Server
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Refreshing Your List of IMAP Mailboxes and Folders
If you have shared folders set up, you and other users can acces s and change messages
stored in mailboxes and folders you keep stored remotely on an I MAP server. However,
users may access shared folders only, your personal folders cannot be accessed. The
Mailboxes window does not reflect the “real-time” status of the IMAP mailbo x list. So
between mail checks, a disparity can grow between what appears in the lis t and what is
actually on the IMAP server, as new mailboxes are added and existing ones are changed
or removed.
To refresh your list of mailboxes and folders on the IMAP server, as it appears in the Mail-
boxes window, do the following.
1From the Tools menu, choose Mailboxes, or click the Mailboxes window’s tab if it is
the inactive window in a tabbed group. The Mailboxes window appears.
2Right-click on the top folder in the IMAP tree to display the drop-down lis t.
3From the drop-down list, choose Refresh Mailbox List. The mailbox list is updated
according to what actually appears on the IMAP server at that time. Also , the Mailbox
and Transfer menus are updated with the current IMAP mailbox configuration.
Using IMAP Tasks Offline
If you use IMAP as your incoming server, you can perform certain tasks offline. Being
offline is the preferred method when you are using a laptop away from home or office.
When you are offline, you are disconnected from the server.
To go offline, do the following.
1Move your mouse pointer to the taskbar and right-click. A context drop-d own list
appears.
2From the context menu, choose Offline. You are now disconnected from your IMAP
server.
When you are offline, you can perform these tasks:
■disable timed mail checks
■manually check for mail
■transfer and delete messages after they are retrieved. However, a dialog box appears
asking you to connect for as long as it takes to transfer and delete y our messages.
Once the tasks are completed, you immediately disconnect from t he server.