Preview IMAP4 Mail
The Preview IMAP4 Mail function is activated by the toolbar
button or File menu option by that name,
if your General Settings notebook says that
the current account is an IMAP4 one
rather than a POP3 one. (Otherwise, this toolbar button and menu option
will bring up the Preview Mail window instead.)
If you want to bring the contents of your IMAP4 INBOX into your Polarbar
Mailer folders for local storage, using the Retrieve
mail option is probably the easiest way. The Preview IMAP4 Mail window
is mainly for interacting with the mail folders on your server, though
you can also download mail from this window if you wish.
When you select IMAP4 at the top of the first page of the General
Settings notebook, two extra settings appear. The top one, Mail Folder,
lets you specify the server directory which is the parent of your INBOX
and other mail folders. Most people will never need to type anything here
since the directory you're in when you log onto your IMAP4 account is likely
to be the right one. But if you do need to specify the directory name here,
be sure to include a trailing separator character. For example, if you
want to say "~/Mail", say "~/Mail/" instead. This setting affects the Preview
IMAP4 Mail window only. The lower setting on the other hand, Mailbox
Name, has no effect on this window. It is where you specify the folder
whose mail you want the Retrieve mail option
to download. The default, which will work for most people, is "INBOX".
If you need to change it, include the full pathname, without a trailing
separator character.
When you attempt to bring up the Preview IMAP4 Mail window, one other
dialog comes first:
Preview IMAP4 Mail Setup. Its settings will
be filled in using the information in your General
Settings, but you can change the server name, userid, password, and
port number as desired, if you want to work with the mail in some account
other than the Polarbar Mailer account you have open at the moment. If
you turn on the Debug Mode checkbox, the commands that the program
sends to the server, and the server's responses, will be displayed in the
window in which your Java virtual machine is running.
When you leave the setup dialog, the program will proceed to the main
Preview IMAP4 Mail window. This window is very much like the program's
main
window, with a folder tree panel, a message list panel, and a browser
panel. If you select a folder, a dialog comes up to tell you how many messages
are in the folder and ask you which ones you want displayed in the message
list panel.
The Folder Menu
-
Create a folder
-
Creates a folder on the server.
-
Create a subfolder
-
Creates a folder on the server as a child of the folder you currently have
selected in the tree panel list.
-
Rename
-
Lets you rename the selected folder on the server.
-
Reload messages
-
Re-opens the selected folder.
-
Delete
-
Deletes the selected folder and all of its contents.
-
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 folder tree
panel, so only the main folders are still showing.
The Message Menu
-
Print selected message(s)
-
Prints the selected messages.
-
Print marked message(s)
-
Prints the marked messages (see below).
-
Retrieve selected message to a file
-
Places the message into the file you specify.
-
Retrieve selected message(s) to inbox
-
Retrieves the selected messages to the account's
local INBOX folder just as a normal
mail retrieval would do.
-
Retrieve marked message(s) to inbox
-
Just like the option above, except that it acts upon the marked messages
rather than the selected ones (see below).
-
Mark selected message(s)
-
Marks the selected messages. That means it puts a green arrow into the
leftmost column of the message list panel, such that later use of any option
which works upon marked messages, will work upon that message. The most
obvious use for this option is while you're reading messages, to mark the
ones that you will want to delete; then after you've read and/or retrieved
the ones you want, you can delete the right messages without having to
remember which ones you wanted to delete, because you will have marked
them as you went along.
-
Mark all
-
Marks all of the messages instead of just the selected ones; see above.
-
Unmark selected message(s)
-
Unmarks the marked ones of the selected messages; see above.
-
Unmark all
-
Unmarks all of the marked messages; see above.
-
Message display options
-
This submenu contains options which have the same meanings here that they
have on the
Message menu of the program's
main window.
-
Move selected message(s) to a folder
-
Moves the selected messages to a folder on the IMAP4 server.
-
Move marked message(s) to a folder
-
Moves the marked messages to a folder on the IMAP4 server.
-
Copy selected message(s) to a folder
-
Copies the selected messages to a folder on the IMAP4 server.
-
Copy marked message(s) to a folder
-
Copies the marked messages to a folder on the IMAP4 server.
-
Copy selected text to clipboard
-
Copies the selected text in the browser window to the clipboard if your
operating system has a clipboard.
-
Delete marked message(s)
-
Deletes the marked messages from the IMAP4 server after asking you if you're
sure you want to do it, and closes and re-opens the folder. There will
never be any way for you to get any of the messages back after doing this.