## Folders: organizing your mail

- Viewing your list of folders
- Viewing the messages in a folder
- Adding folders
- Deleting folders
- Renaming folders
- Routing mail to folders

You can organize your mail into folders. Folders are displayed in the left pane. Some folders are provided by default:

- Inbox. Stores and displays your mail messages when they arrive, unless you have routed messages to another folder. You can drag and drop messages from the Inbox to other folders.
- Drafts. Stores any messages that have been saved during an editing session.
- Sent. By default, stores copies of all of your sent mail.
- Junk. Stores messages that have been caught by spam filtering and messages that you add by clicking Report Spam on the menu bar. On a weekly basis, Alpine deletes everything in the Junk folder that is dated before the previous week.
- Trash. Stores deleted messages, where they can be recovered until they are permanently removed. For more information, see Trash.
- Recent Folders. This is a listing of the folders that you have opened recently. You can set the number of recent folders displayed in the left pane. For more information, see Settings.

#### Note:

When viewed in the folder list displayed by clicking View/Manage Folders, the default folders named Junk and Sent in the left pane appear under the names sent-mail and junk-mail.

## Viewing your list of folders

- In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.

## Viewing the messages in a folder

To view the messages contained in a folder

1. In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
2. Select the folder that you want to view by clicking its name. On the menu bar, click View Messages.
3. Alternatively, double click the folder name.

## Adding folders

1. In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
2. On the menu bar, click New Folder.
3. Enter a name for the new folder and click New Folder. If you want this new folder to be a subfolder within an existing folder, enter the name of the parent folder, followed by a slash ( / ), followed by the new folder name. For example, subdir/foldername.
4. The new folder appears in the list.

## Deleting folders

#### Note:

Unlike deleted messages, deleted folders are not moved to the Trash, and they cannot be retrieved.

To delete a folder

1. In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
2. Click the folder that you want to delete. On the menu bar, click Delete.
3. Click Delete Forever to confirm.

## Renaming folders

1. In the left pane, click View/Manage Folders. A list of your folders appears in the right pane.
2. Click the folder that you want to rename. On the menu bar, click Rename.
3. Enter the new name.
4. Click Rename Folder to confirm.

## Routing mail to folders

You can set up Alpine to route incoming and outgoing messages to designated folders.

To route a copy of an outgoing message to a folder

- Enter the folder name in the Fcc field in the composer.

To route incoming messages to a folder

- See Settings.