Visual Mail V3 - Working with Folders

Folder menus

The Folder menus (Folder..., Move..., and Copy...) on the main window are created from a snapshot of the current folder structure. They are limited in length by the maxfold option variable. The folder menus are rebuilt using Update folder list and menus under the Folder commands... menu.


Folder commands

Folder commands are located in the Folder listing area. This area is not always shown and is activated by the checkbutton menu item named Show Folder commands under the Folder... menu button. At the top of the folder listing area is a menu bar containing horizontal resizing buttons, a Folder commands... menu button, and a Kill button (X) that will turn off the display of this area.

Commands available are described below:

Update folder list and menus

Selecting this menu item will cause the ~/Messages directory to be rescanned for .hdr files. All subdirectories are examined in this process and a count of the number of msg.* files in the folder is kept and displayed for each folder. Please note that if you have a large number of folders and messages and the directory is NFS mounted, it can take considerable time to scan the inodes and count the msg.* files.

Open selected folder

Print message listing of selected folder(s)

Create new folder

Rename selected folder(s)

Empty selected folder(s)

Delete selected folder(s)

Export selected folder(s)

Export all folders

Mark all messages in selected folder(s) as UNREAD

Mark all messages in selected folder(s) as READ

Rescan all messages in selected folder(s)

Split selected folder(s) by date (year/month)

Import an entire directory of Mail folders

Import a single Mail folder

Filter folders

Search folders for messages

Select messages by a header string


Creating new folders


Renaming folders


Emptying folders


Deleting folders


Exporting folders


Importing folders


Searching folders


Filtering folders