How to use
SquirrelMail - WebMail
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Detail about the Folders in Squirrelmail
Along the left hand side of the SquirrelMail
page is a frame that is titled folders. Below the Title is the day and
time that the folders were last refreshed. If you have done some work
in the folders you may want to freshen up the folders, to do this just
click on the (Check Mail) link below.
In the area below folders are listed the
names of the folders you are currently subscribed to. (More info on Subscribing
to folders when Options is explained) here are descriptions of those folders.
Inbox
This is where
all new email located when it first enters your mailbox. Click on Inbox
and you will see all of the new mail in your Message List in the right
hand frame. You can read the messages in the Inbox by clicking on the
subject of the message.
Drafts
This folder
is where you would store uncompleted emails and other mail not ready to
send.
Learn FP
When you
receive a message in your SPAM folder that is not SPAM, you should move
it to this folder. The FP stands for "False Positive" which
is a message that the server may have identified incorrectly as SPAM.
When you move a message into this folder the Mail server will process
it and adjust your personal filtering to allow the mail through to your
inbox in the future. This does not guarantee that a similar message will
make it into your Inbox.
Learn Spam
When you
receive messages in your Inbox that are SPAM you should move them into
this folder. During the nightly Email Server processing any email in this
folder will be examined and new filtering information will be created.
In the future messages with similar characteristics will be placed in
the SPAM folder. This does not guarantee that similar messages will be
moved to the Spam folder.
Sent
When
you create and send an email from SquirrelMail a copy of the message is
stored in this folder. You must manually remove messages from this folder
by deleting them.
Spam
The EMCS.NET
mail server has a program that it uses called Spamassassin, this program
uses filtering methods to identify email messages that are considered
to be SPAM. You control the filter by adjusting the "Spam Score".
Any messages that fit into your Spam score will end up in this folder.
You may want to look through this folder for messages that should not
be in here. If you find any you can move them to the Learn FP folder (Read
above). Messages are stored here for 14 days and then they are discarded
during the nightly processing.
Trash
This folder is where
any and all deleted messages go from all the other folders. When there
are messages in this folder you will see purge) next to the folder name.
To empty the folder just click on the (Purge) link. Because of the volume of Trash that is left in the folders, as of May 1, 2007 al mail in the trash folder older then 14 days will be purged.l
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