Folders: organizing mail

You can organize your mail into folders. Folders are displayed in the left pane. Some folders are provided by default:

Note:

When viewed in the folder list displayed by clicking View/Manage Folders, the default folders named Junk and Sent in the left pane appear under the names sent-mail and junk-mail.

Viewing your folders

Adding folders

  1. In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
  2. On the menu bar, click New Folder.
  3. Enter a name for the new folder and click New Folder. If you want this new folder to be a subfolder within an existing folder, enter the name of the parent folder, followed by a backslash ( \ ), followed by the new folder name.
  4. The new folder appears in the list.
  5. Type your message in the text box. The text box features a formatting toolbar with familiar options formatting text and inserting links and graphics. To write the message as unformatted text, click Plain Text. To display the formatting toolbar, click Rich Text.


Deleting folders

Unlike deleted messages, deleted folders are not moved to the Trash, and they cannot be retreived.

To delete a folder

  1. In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
  2. Click the folder that you want to delete. On the menu bar, click Delete.
  3. Click Rename Folder to confirm.


Renaming folders

  1. In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
  2. Click the folder that you want to rename. On the menu bar, click Rename.
  3. Enter the new name.
  4. Click Delete Forever to confirm.


Routing mail to folders

You can set up Alpine to route incoming and outgoing messages to designated folders.

To route an outgoing message to a folder

To route incoming messages to a folder