Note: The unread message icon is displayed in the Mailbox menu whenever a mailbox or folder contains unread messages that are less than five days old, and any mailboxes or folders in the Mailboxes window that conatin unread messages are displayed as bold.
Each message summary is divided into columns: Status, Priority, Attachments, Label, Sender/Recipient, Date, Size, Server Action, and Subject. You can show or hide these columns using the Mailbox Columns Options.
A message's Status, Priority, Label, and Server Action can be changed directly in the mailbox window. To do this, select the messages you want to change and click the right mouse button. Select an option from the popup menu to make your change.
The Status Column
This
column displays the message status, which is one of the
following:
| The message has not been read (all mailboxes except Out), or is queueable but has not been queued (Out mailbox only). | |
| <blank> | The message has been read (all mailboxes except Out), or is not yet able to be queued because it has no recipients (Out mailbox only). |
| R | Reply has been chosen for the message. |
| F | Forward has been chosen for the message. |
| D | Redirect has been chosen for the message. |
| S | The message has been sent (outgoing messages only). |
| Q | The message is queued to be sent (outgoing messages only). |
| T | The message is queued to be sent at a specified time (outgoing messages only). |
| - | The message was transferred from the Out mailbox before being sent. |
The Priority Column
This
column displays the message priority. You can use the popup to
set a particular priority, or to raise or lower the priority.
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Highest priority. |
 |
High priority. |
| <blank> | Normal priority. |
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Low priority. |
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Lowest priority. |
The Attachments Column
This
column displays the attachment icon (
)
if a message has attached documents.
The Label Column
This
column displays the message label. Labels are assigned to incoming
messages by the recipient, either manually or automatically using
filters (see the section "Filtering Messages"). When
a message summary is assigned a label, the entire summary changes
color to match the label color.
Note: Label colors and titles are assigned using the Labels Options.
The Sender/Recipient Column
This
column shows the sender of the message (for incoming messages)
or the intended recipients (for outgoing messages).
Note: Bugs in some POP servers/mail transport systems cause Eudora to display the sender of incoming messages as ???@???. This is because the required From: header is missing.
The Date Column
This
column displays the date and time the message was composed,
or, for timed messages, the date and time the message is scheduled
to be sent.
The Size Column
This
column displays the size of the message in K (K = 1024 bytes).
The Server Action Column
This
column displays the action that is done to the corresponding message
on the server. The next time you check mail, the server action
you requested is automatically completed.
| Leave Don't change the message on the server. |
|
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Fetch Download the whole message from the server. |
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Delete Delete the message from the server. |
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Fetch & Delete Download the whole message then delete it from the server. |
Note: To control the mail transfer, you can also use the Mail Transfer Options dialog. For details, see the section "Checking Mail with Special Server Instructions."
The Subject Column
This
column displays the subject of the message. The sender originally
typed this information into the message header, but you can modify
it (see the section "Editing Message Subjects").
To resize a column in a mailbox window, move the mouse pointer until it is over the column heading divider to the right of the column you want to resize, drag the divider to the position you want. The column divider moves to the new location, and the mailbox is redrawn.
You can only shrink a column as far as its left divider. If you do that, a double divider line is displayed in place of the column, and its contents are hidden. To redisplay the column, drag the right divider line to the right.
Wasted space is created when messages are deleted from a mailbox. This wasted space is automatically removed when the amount of wasted space in the mailbox is greater than the amount of space the messages in the mailbox use, or if the amount of space wasted in the mailbox is greater than 5% of the free space on the disk drive that contains it.
To manually clean up the wasted space in a mailbox, click on the mailbox's size display. Or, to clean up all your mailboxes, select Compact Mailboxes from the Special menu.
To create a mailbox, type in the new mailbox name and click OK. The mailbox is created and added to the Mailbox and Transfer menus.
To create a mail folder, type the name of the new mail folder and check the Make it a Folder option. Click OK to create the folder. The new mailbox dialog is displayed again. Type 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.
The Mailboxes window has two identical lists of mailboxes and folders, each called Eudora Folder. These list the names of the mailboxes and folders you have created (folders are identified by an arrow to the right of the name). Each list is similar to that displayed under the Mailbox and Transfer menus, except that the In, Out, and Trash mailboxes aren't included.
If the Mailbox window isn't big enough to display all of your created mailboxes and folders, use the scroll bar on the right side of either list to view the rest of the mailboxes and folders.
Note: Double-clicking on any of the mailboxes in a list opens that mailbox. Messages can be selected, opened, and otherwise manipulated from there.
To open a folder and display its contents in the list, double-click the folder. To change the folder being displayed in the list, select another folder from the title popup.
Type in the new name, check the Make it a Folder option if you want to, and click OK. The new mailbox or folder is displayed in the lists, and added to the Mailbox and Transfer menus.
If you choose to remove a mailbox in which messages are still stored, or a folder in which other mailboxes or folders are stored, all the messages, mailboxes, and folders contained within the selected mailbox are also removed.
The Mailboxes window is automatically docked to the left side of the Eudora application window, and can also be docked to the right side of the Eudora window, or placed anywhere on your desktop. You can right-click the mouse button to toggle Docking view (floating vs. attached to the application window) or Hide on and off.
To open the Mailboxes window if you've hidden it, select View Mailboxes from the Tools menu.
To move the Mailboxes window, hold down the left mouse button on the gray rim of the window and drag it where you want it. If you drag it to the left or right edge of the Eudora window, it will dock in a vertical position in the Eudora window.
To open a mailbox or folder, double-click on it. You can move among the folders and mailboxes using the up and down arrow keys, or close or open folders using the left and right arrow keys. You can also start typing the name of the mailbox or folder you want, and it is highlighted when you have typed enough unique characters to identify it (the item must be displayed, so a mailbox that is in a closed folder cannot be selected).
Type in the new name, check the Make it a Folder option if you want to, and click OK. The new mailbox or folder is displayed in the lists, and added to the Mailbox and Transfer menus.
If you choose to remove a mailbox in which messages are still stored, or a folder in which other mailboxes or folders are stored, all the messages, mailboxes, and folders contained within the selected mailbox are also removed.
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