3.6 Receiving and Storing E-Mail

3.61 Creating Mail Folders

When you first start Microdot, the screen will look very bare and quite uncustomised.

You do get one mail folder as standard - PRIV. This is your main mail folder and any unfiltered mail will go into this folder.

You need to create your individual folders if you want to store messages from different people and/or mailing lists. Once mail is received you can manually move mail into individual folders or setup filters to move new messages automatically.

Most people will have a number of "online friends" who they communicate with on a regular basis and these people will be ideal for their own folders. To create a new mail folder:

1. Choose which folders you think you will need. For this example we will create two different folders. NetConnect will handle NetConnect mailing list messages and Active will be used to handle mails from Active Technologies.

2. Goto the Groups Menu and select Create New Mail Folder from the options. A small GUI will appear.

3. Let's create the NetConnect folder first. In the Name: section enter something like "NC-Support" or "NetConnect", in the Topic: enter something like "NetConnect Mailing List" and set the expiry date for 30-45 days (if you set the expiry date, all messages after the date will be deleted. Best way to describe it is a auto-delete function).

   

   In this example we have set the signature to default to 'Business' (this was a pre-set signature setup within the signature preferences). I have also set my default email address to 'chris@active-net.co.uk'. Normally, when writing a reply within that folder, the email message will use the 'default address' as the reply-to: address.

4. Let's now create the Active folder. Open the Create New Mail Folder GUI from the Groups Menu. Now enter "Active" within the Name: box, "Active Technologies" within the Topic: box and leave the expiry date off (as you don't want mail to expire in a private message folder).

Your GUI is now starting to take some shape! Add any mailboxes you require by following the process stated above.

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