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<h2>Folders: organizing mail</h2>

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<li><a href="#view">Viewing your folders</a></li>

<li><a href="#add">Adding folders</a></li>

<li><a href="#delete">Deleting folders</a></li>

<li><a href="#rename">Renaming folders</a></li>

<li><a href="#route">Routing mail to folders</a></li>

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

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<li><strong>Inbox.</strong> 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.</li>

<li><strong>Drafts.</strong> Stores any messages that have been saved during an editing session.</li>

<li><strong>Sent.</strong> By default, stores copies of all of your sent mail. You can turn this feature off (see <a href="settings.html#save">Settings</a>). You can also control when the mail in this folder is archived or deleted (see <a href="settings.html#archive">Settings</a>).</li>

<li><strong>Junk.</strong> Stores messages that have been caught by spam filtering and messages that you add by clicking<strong> Report Spam</strong> on the menu bar. On a weekly basis, Alpine deletes everything in the Junk folder that is dated before the previous week.</li>

<li><strong>Trash.</strong> Stores deleted messages, where thay can be recovered until they are deleted permanently. For more information, see <a href="quick-start.html#trash">Trash</a>.</li>

<li><strong>Recent Folders.</strong> 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 <a href="settings.html#folders">Settings</a>.<br />

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

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<h2><a name="view" id="view"></a>Viewing your folders</h2>

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<li>In the left pane, click <strong>View/Manage Folders</strong>. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.</li><br /><br />

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<h2><a name="add" id="add"></a>Adding folders</h2>

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<li>In the left pane, click <strong>View/Manage Folders</strong>. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.</li>

<li>On the menu bar, click <strong>New Folder</strong>.</li>

<li>Enter a name for the new folder and click <strong>New Folder</strong>. 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.</li>

<li>The new folder appears in the list.</li>

<li>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 <strong>Plain Text</strong>. To display the formatting toolbar, click <strong>Rich Text</strong>. </li>

<h2><a name="delete" id="delete"></a>Deleting folders</h2>

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

<p><strong>To delete a folder</strong></p>

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<li>In the left pane, click <strong>View/Manage Folders</strong>. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.</li>

<li>Click the folder that you want to delete. On the menu bar, click <strong>Delete</strong>.</li>

<li>Click <strong>Rename Folder</strong> to confirm.</li>

<h2><a name="rename" id="rename"></a>Renaming folders</h2>

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<li>In the left pane, click <strong>View/Manage Folders</strong>. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.</li>

<li>Click the folder that you want to rename. On the menu bar, click <strong>Rename</strong>.</li>

<li>Enter the new name.</li>

<li>Click <strong>Delete Forever</strong> to confirm.</li>

<h2><a name="route" id="route"></a>Routing mail to folders</h2>

<p>You can set up Alpine to route incoming and outgoing messages to designated folders.</p>

<p><strong>To route an outgoing message to a folder</strong></p>

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<li>Enter the folder name in the <strong>Fcc</strong> field.</li>

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<p><strong>To route incoming messages to a folder</strong></p>

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<li>See <a href="settings.html">Settings</a>. </li>

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