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Webmail: Organizing Your Messages
Webmail allows you to create folders into which you can copy or move messages. Another way to organize your messages is to mark them as: Deleted, Undeleted, Read, Unread, Answered, or Unanswered.
Note: You cannot mark messages as Deleted if you have enabled the Trash feature.
If you have message filtering capabilities enabled on your system, you can specify certain types of messages be automatically delivered to a folder (other than your inbox). For information on creating folders, see Working with folders. For information on message filtering, see the Webmail Documentation Page.
To copy or move messages between folders:
- With the contents of the folder displayed, do one of the following:
- Select the check boxes of the messages you want to move to a folder.
- Choose Select to select all the displayed messages. If there are a few messages you do not want included, you can select the check boxes for those messages to remove the check marks.
- From the folder menu, choose the name of the folder into which you are placing the messages and click Copy or Move.
Result: If you click Copy, copies of the selected messages are transferred to the specified folder. This process leaves the original messages in place, resulting in two copies of the messages: one in the selected folder and one in the original folder. If you click Move, all the selected messages are transferred to the selected folder and the selected messages are marked for deletion in the original folder; click Compact to remove these messages from this folder.
To visually mark messages:
- Select the messages you want to mark.
Result: A check mark appears next in the check box of the selected messages. To deselect a message, select it a second time. - From the Mark menu, choose one of the following:
- Deleted: Marks a selected message with the Deleted icon
. When you log out of Webmail or click Compact, these messages are deleted from your account. - Undeleted: Unmarks a message that has a Deleted icon. There is no icon for Undeleted.
- Read: Marks a message with the Unread icon to show that it has been read. There is no icon for Read.
- Unread: Marks a message with the Unread icon
. - Answered: Marks a message with the Answered
icon. - Unanswered: Unmarks a message that has an Answered icon. There is no icon for Unanswered.
Result: The selected messages are marked and acted on as specified. - Deleted: Marks a selected message with the Deleted icon
Messages remain in "marked" status until you take further action.
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Last updated: 7/16/08