Organizing your Mail into Folders

Mail that you receive (and send) is best filed into folders which relate to different topics or interests. In Outlook Express these folders are seen in a frame on the left of the screen. Standard folders include:

• Inbox - the messages that have come into your program. In parenthesis is the number of unread messages
  
  
• Outbox - this contains unsent but completed messages and empties every time your press the send button
  
  
• Sent Items - this keeps a record of the messages you send. It may be useful to move some of these out to a folder so that your messages and the messages they relate to are in the same folder
  
  
• Deleted Items - this folder contains the messages which you have decided to delete. They are not actually deleted until you right-click on the folder and select Empty 'Deleted Items'
  
  
• Folder Drafts - I obviously don't use this folder but it contains messages that you started but haven't finalized

 

To see what is in a folder click on the folder in the list in the left hand frame. The list of messages in that folder is then displayed in the upper right frame

To create a new folder select the message then open the Edit menu and select Move to Folder

In the "Move file to folder" dialog box you can check whether a suitable folder exists. If it doesn't, click on the New Folder button and the new folder dialog box to name the folder will open.

Type in the name of the new folder and click OK to create it.

You're still not quite done. The message you originally wanted to move to a new folder hasn't yet been moved. So click on the folder name which is now in the list then click OK to complete the move.

If you want to continue the subjects in order this was # 8