CREATING NEW MAIL FOLDERS

Keeping your mailbox organized can often be difficult with all the e-mail messages that manage to get delivered to you, from personal to business, and unfortunately even junk mail. Fortunately, there are ways to help you organize your messages in your e-mail programs. Below you will learn how to create new mail folders to help you file messages a little better.

The instructions below are for three of the more popular e-mail programs: Outlook Express, Eudora Light, and Netscape Messenger. Some of the instructions below will be similar if you use a different e-mail program.

The e-mail programs listed below have folders for incoming, outgoing, sent, draft, and deleted mail already. These usually work fine, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a folder for personal or work related e-mail? Use the following steps to add new folders:

Outlook Express

Open outlook express and click on the Inbox folder.
Click File on your menu bar.
Click on New and select Folder…
Type the name of the folder you would like to create (i.e. Work, Personal, etc.) and click OK.
Repeat the process to add more Folders.

Netscape Messenger

Click on Communicator on your menu bar.
Click on Message Center from the scroll down menu.
In the Message Center window click on Local Mail.
Click the New Folder button on the tool bar.
Type the name of the new folder and press OK.
Repeat the process for more folders.
Close the Message Center window.

Eudora Light

Right-click on MAIL on the Mailboxes Window.
Click on New…
Type the name of the new mailbox and click OK.

Now that you’ve created new folders, you can move messages by simply dragging them from one folder into another.

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Creating New Mail Folders