The Folder Menu
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Create a Folder
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Creates a new mail folder in which to store and organize your 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.
Create a Virtual Folder
See Virtual Folders
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Delete
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Deletes the currently selected folder, all of its messages, and any subfolders
and their messages. In the case of the INBOX, OUTBOX, and TRASH folders,
it only deletes the messages and subfolders, not the folders themselves.
In the case of "remote" folders (see Create a folder above), it
will ask you whether you want it to really delete the folder and all of
its contents, or whether you want it to just remove the folder's entry
from the Remote.Folder.Index file so the program will no longer see the
folder as being part of this account.
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Reindex
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Reindexes the currently selected folder and any subfolders (to reindex all
folders, select the account name before activating reindexing).
Expand All
Opens all folders which have children, to display the subfolders, sub-subfolders,
etc.
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Collapse All
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Removes all the subfolders and sub-subfolders, etc., from the tree view
area so only the main folders are showing.
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Folder Tree Font
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Specifies the font for the folder tree.
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Long Folder List Layout
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This option toggles the main window display layout between the standard
layout and an alternate layout where the folder list extends the entire
vertical height of the main window. The width of the message display area
is reduced but for environments with higher resolution video, this may
not be an issue.
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Maintain Trash Folder
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Runs the cleanup processing normally done at shutdown. This processing
includes:
- Trimming the trash folder to the size specified in the
Settings dialog on the Cleanup page.
- Trimming the transaction log to the size also specified in the
Settings dialog on the Cleanup page.
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