The File Menu
New | Message
Opens the compose window to create a new
message.
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New | Folder
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Creates a new mail folder in which to store and organize messages.
Polarbar Mailer folders are directories on your hard drive or other similar
storage medium. Other than the limitations imposed upon directory names
by your operating system or file system, you can name a Polarbar Mailer
folder anything you like as long as it doesn't end with the string ".POP"
or ".pop". When you create a folder by specifying name, the folder is created
as a directory by that name, as a subdirectory of your account
directory. The program refers to these as "local" folders. If you create
a folder by specifying a pathname instead (such as "D:\New Folder"), then
that directory will be created if it does not already exist and it will
be the location of the new folder. We refer to these as "remote" folders
and their existence is known by the existence of an entry in the account's
Remote.Folder.Index file. There are only two differences between local
folders and remote ones: When you delete a remote folder, the program asks
you whether you really want to delete all of the folder's contents or whether
you just want to remove the folder from the account's list of folders (the
Remote.Folder.Index file). If you make the latter choice, then the folder,
its messages, and its subfolders will still exist, Polarbar Mailer just
won't see them anymore unless you "create" the same folder again or manually
add the entry back into the Remote.Folder.Index file. The second difference
is that the display of the folder name will include the pathname for remote
folders, but not for local ones.
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The support for remote folders means that you can have folders that are
accessible by all of your Polarbar Mailer accounts:
Create a folder in one account as either local or remote, then create the
same folder in the other accounts, as a remote folder, using the original
folder's pathname. For example, let's say you have an account named EMAIL
which you allowed the program to create in the default location. This means
its pathname is probably something like d:\polarbar\Mailer\MailData\email.
If you create a local folder named FOLDER in that account, then that folder's
pathname is d:\polarbar\Mailer\MailData\email\folder. When you create the
remote folder in the other accounts, specify d:\polarbar\Mailer\MailData\email\folder
as the folder to create. Any subdirectory of a Polarbar Mailer folder
will automatically be seen by the program as that folder's subfolder. This
applies to both local and remote folders.
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New | Virtual Folder
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See Virtual Folders
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New | Account
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Creates a new account for another user or for another internet address.
If only the account name is specified, a directory by that name will be
created under the MailData subdirectory of your Mailer directory.
The account files and folders will be created in that new directory.
The program refers to these as "local" accounts.
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If a full pathname, such as D:\My New Account," is specified, that directory
will be created if it does not exist and the files and folders will be
created there. This is referred to as a "remote" account. There
are two differences between remote and local files: (1) When
a remote account is deleted through the Polarbar Mailer, nothing actually
gets deleted except the entry in the Account.Index file and the account
directory's
Account.Settings file.
The directory will still exist, but the Polarbar Mailer will no longer
"see" it. (2) The Polarbar Mailer displays the entire pathname
for remote accounts, but not for local accounts.
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New | Browser
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Opens a new browser window using the default browser specified on the Web
Browser page of the Settings dialog.
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Save As
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Copies the selected message (the *.POP file) to the drive, directory, and
file name specified.
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Retrieve Mail
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Retrieves mail from all enabled non-IMAP4 servers listed on the
Incoming Servers page of the Settings dialog.
The new mail is placed into the current account's
INBOX folder, except in cases where a Filter
causes it to be placed elsewhere. To work (interactively) with IMAP4 servers,
use the Preview Mail feature.
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Preview Mail
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Activates the Preview Mail feature.
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Send Mail
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Sends the messages in the current account's
OUTBOX folder to the SMTP or POP3 server specified on the Outgoing
Servers page of the Settings dialog or
to the PPO Outbox Directory, depending on the order of the outbound
servers configured in the Settings dialog.
After the mail has been sent, it is moved from the OUTBOX folder to the
folder specified on the Sent Folder page of the default Persona or the folder specified in the Sent
folder field of that specific message while you were creating it in
the compose window, or by virtue of
selecting an address book entry which has a
specified Sent folder.
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Stop Receiving
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Interrupts mail retrieval. This option is enabled only during a retrieval
session.
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Stop sending
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This option is enabled only while mail sending is taking place and stops
the current send session.
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Skip Current
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This option is enabled only while mail is being received. It will
skip the current message that is being downloaded. For instance,
if there are four messages to download and you find the second one has
a large attachment you would prefer to download later, choose skip current
and it will download the rest of the messages in the queue but not that
particular message.
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Print
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Also activated via Ctrl-P. This option prints the message(s) currently
selected in the message list. If there are multiple selected messages,
they will be printed together, for page numbering purposes, but a Printing Setting lets you specify whether or
not you want a page break between each message.
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Exit
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This option closes the Polarbar Mailer.
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