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New | Message
Opens the compose window to create a new  message.
New | Folder
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.

 
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.

 
New | Virtual Folder
See  Virtual Folders

 
New | Account
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.

 
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.

 
New | Browser
Opens a new browser window using the default browser specified on the Web Browser page of the Advanced Settings.

 
Save As
Copies the selected message (the *.POP file) to the drive, directory, and file name specified.

 
Retrieve Mail
Retrieves mail from  the server specified on the Mail Servers page of the General Settings, or the PPO Inbox Directory if that feature is activated on the Personal Post Office page of the Advanced Settingsl. The new mail is placed into the current account's INBOX folder, except in cases where a Filter causes it to be placed elsewhere. If the server is an IMAP4 server, this option will still download the mail to the INBOX folder just as if it were a POP3 server account instead. Use the Preview IMAP4 Mail function to work interactively with the IMAP4 server and deal with the mail files and folders on the server.

 
Preview Mail
Activates the Preview Mail feature.

 
Send Mail
Sends the messages in the current account's OUTBOX folder to the SMTP or POP3 server specified on the Mail Servers page of the General Settings or to the PPO Outbox Directory if that feature activated on the Personal Post Office page of the Advanced Settings. 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.

 
Stop Receiving
Interrupts mail retrieval.  This option is enabled only during a retrieval session.

 
Stop sending
This option is enabled only while mail sending is taking place and stops the current send session.

 
Skip Current
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.

 
Print
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 an Advanced Setting lets you specify whether or not you want a page break between each message.

 
Exit
This option closes the Polarbar Mailer.

 

 
 
 

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