[MlMt] newbie question about folders

Jo rocklily at comcast.net
Thu Jan 30 19:07:24 EST 2020


On 28 Jan 2020, at 8:43, Ken Pope wrote:

> I’m a fellow PowerMail-user-since-forever who recently moved to 
> MailMate when PM no longer worked w/ my OS upgrade.  Here are the 
> steps I take to create that kind of folder: First, in the vertical 
> list labeled “Mailboxes” along the left margin of MailMate, I 
> scroll down to the label “Sources.” Immediately under 
> “Sources” is my email address, which I highlight. Then I click on 
> the “gear” at the bottom, and the menu it shows includes “New 
> IMAP Mailbox in [my email address]”.
>
> I click that option which (unsurprisingly) creates a new IMAP Mailbox 
> under my email address above.  I type in a name for that mailbox.  
> Then I can drag any emails from my inbox into that mailbox.  The 
> message no longer appears in my inbox—it appears only in that new 
> IMAP mailbox.  I’ve created quite a few of those IMAP mailboxes so I 
> can keep important messages, find them easily, and not worry about 
> accidentally erasing them.


thank you! Hadn’t tried (or noticed) that gear thingy yet. Cool.

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Jo



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