Folders: organizing your mail
- Viewing your list of folders
- Viewing the messages in a folder
- Adding folders
- Deleting folders
- Renaming folders
- Routing mail to folders
You can organize your mail into folders. Folders are displayed in the left pane. Some folders are provided by default:
- Inbox. Stores and displays your mail messages when they arrive, unless you have routed messages to another folder. You can drag and drop messages from the Inbox to other folders.
- Drafts. Stores any messages that have been saved during an editing session.
- Sent. By default, stores copies of all of your sent mail.
- Junk. Stores messages that have been caught by spam filtering and messages that you add by clicking Report Spam on the menu bar. On a weekly basis, Alpine deletes everything in the Junk folder that is dated before the previous week.
- Trash. Stores deleted messages, where they can be recovered until they are permanently removed. For more information, see Trash.
- Recent Folders. This is a listing of the folders that you have opened recently. You can set the number of recent folders displayed in the left pane. For more information, see Settings.
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 list of folders
- In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
Viewing the messages in a folder
To view the messages contained in a folder
- In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
- Select the folder that you want to view by clicking its name. On the menu bar, click View Messages.
- Alternatively, double click the folder name.
Adding folders
- In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
- On the menu bar, click New Folder.
- 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 slash ( / ), followed by the new folder name. For example, subdir/foldername.
- The new folder appears in the list.
Deleting folders
Note:
Unlike deleted messages, deleted folders are not moved to the Trash, and they cannot be retrieved.
To delete a folder
- In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
- Click the folder that you want to delete. On the menu bar, click Delete.
- Click Delete Forever to confirm.
Renaming folders
- In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
- Click the folder that you want to rename. On the menu bar, click Rename.
- Enter the new name.
- Click Rename Folder to confirm.
Routing mail to folders
You can set up Alpine to route incoming and outgoing messages to designated folders.
To route a copy of an outgoing message to a folder
- Enter the folder name in the Fcc field in the composer.
To route incoming messages to a folder
- See Settings.