## Folders: organizing mail

- Viewing your folders
- 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. You can turn this feature off (see Settings). You can also control when the mail in this folder is archived or deleted (see Settings).
- 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 thay can be recovered until they are deleted permanently. 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 folders

- In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.

## Adding folders

1. In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
2. On the menu bar, click New Folder.
3. 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 backslash ( \ ), followed by the new folder name.
4. The new folder appears in the list.
5. 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 Plain Text. To display the formatting toolbar, click Rich Text.

## Deleting folders

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

To delete a folder

1. In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
2. Click the folder that you want to delete. On the menu bar, click Delete.
3. Click Rename Folder to confirm.

## Renaming folders

1. In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
2. Click the folder that you want to rename. On the menu bar, click Rename.
3. Enter the new name.
4. Click Delete Forever to confirm.

## Routing mail to folders

You can set up Alpine to route incoming and outgoing messages to designated folders.

To route an outgoing message to a folder

- Enter the folder name in the Fcc field.

To route incoming messages to a folder

- See Settings.