The Folder Menu
Create a Folder
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.
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
Delete
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.
Reindex
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.
Collapse All
Removes all the subfolders and sub-subfolders, etc., from the tree view area so only the main folders are showing.

 
Folder Tree Font
Specifies the font for the folder tree.

 
Maintain Trash Folder
Runs the cleanup processing normally done at shutdown. This processing includes:

 

 

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