Navigating Folders¶

This page documents the folder tree — the panel down the left side of the main window. It lists your folders, and selecting a folder here is what drives the message list on the right. It also covers finding a folder by name, creating, renaming, moving, and deleting folders, and how app folders behave.

The folder pane¶

The folder tree does not fill its column on its own. Above and below it sit two small strips:

• At the top, your account badge — an avatar, your account name, and your e-mail address. The avatar is your picture if you have one, otherwise a coloured disc with your initials. Clicking the badge opens the Mailbox Manager.
• At the bottom, the connection light and a line reporting the latest connection or transfer event.

While you are filtering the folders, the filter box sits right under the account badge.

Between the tree and that bottom strip, the Departments pane opens up while you hold access to a department mailbox.

The Departments pane¶

Below the folder tree, under a Departments heading, sits a second tree for the department mailboxes you have been given access to. It appears once you hold at least one of them, and takes the lower part of the left column.

Each department is a row of its own, named by its e-mail address, with that department's folders beneath it — the same prime folders, custom folders, and unread counts as in the tree above. Expand a department to see its folders, and collapse it to fold them away.

The two trees share the column's height across a divider you can drag: point at the line between the folder tree and the Departments heading, and drag it up or down to give either tree more room. Neither one can be dragged away completely, and where you leave the divider is remembered between sessions.

The heading itself folds the section away. Click Departments and the department tree folds up, leaving the heading at the foot of the column with its arrow turned sideways; the folder tree above takes the space. Click the heading again to bring the tree back at the height it had. A folded section stays folded until you open it, this session and the next.

Right-clicking in the pane opens the same menus as in the folder tree above (Creating, renaming, and organizing folders), but what they let you do depends on your role in that department:

A folder stays in its own department: one department's folder cannot be dropped onto another department, or onto your own mailbox. The same role rule applies to the messages in a department's folders — see Acting on a selection. Messages cannot be dragged out of a department's message list, nor dropped onto the Departments pane; a department's messages are moved through the message list's Move ▸ submenu instead.

A role granted or withdrawn while the app is running takes effect right away: the entries change state with no need to switch folders or restart.

How the tree is organized¶

The folder tree is hierarchical:

• Your account is the tree's root. It has no row of its own: its folders start at the top level, and the account badge above the tree names it.

• Prime folders are the built-in folders:

  Prime folder	Purpose
  Inbox	Incoming messages.
  Outbox	Messages queued to send (including delayed sends).
  Sent	Messages you have sent.
  Drafts	Unsent messages saved for later.
  Trash	Deleted messages and folders.
  Junk	A view of spam messages gathered from all other folders (except Trash).
  Apps	The launcher and your installed apps.

• Custom folders are the folders you create. They nest under a prime folder (or under another custom folder) to any depth.

• App folders live under Apps: an app root per installed app, with one app instance folder beneath it per running instance.

Prime folders¶

Every mailbox is created with the same set of built-in prime folders. They always exist, always appear in the same order, and — unlike custom folders — cannot be renamed, moved, or deleted. Their names (inbox, outbox, sent, drafts, trash, junk, apps) are reserved, so a custom folder may not reuse them (see New Folder).

Inbox ¶

Where incoming messages arrive. This is the folder shown when there is nowhere more specific to return to — if your last folder can no longer be found on restart, the view falls back to a prime folder.

Outbox ¶

A staging area for messages on their way out — anything queued to send but not yet delivered, including delayed (timed) sends. The Outbox exposes extra controls in the message list: Retry Send for a failed message and Cancel Send for one still waiting for its scheduled time. A message leaves the Outbox for Sent once it is delivered.

Sent ¶

A copy of every message you have successfully sent.

Drafts ¶

Unfinished messages you have saved for later. Opening one here reopens it in the compose window for editing — see Opening a message.

Trash ¶

Where deleted messages and folders land first. Deletion is two-stage: items move here and stay recoverable until Trash is emptied or they are deleted again from within Trash, which is permanent. Right-click Trash for Empty Trash.

Junk ¶

Unlike the other prime folders, Junk holds no messages of its own — it is a view. It is a live query that gathers every message flagged as spam (by spam score or an explicit junk mark) from every other folder in the account except Trash. Each message it shows physically still lives in its real folder — the Inbox message, the custom-folder message, and so on; Junk simply collects them in one place.

Because of this, Junk behaves differently from a normal folder: you cannot drag messages out of it (the message isn't in Junk to begin with), and its context menu offers exactly one entry — Move All to Trash, which moves every message the view has gathered into Trash after a confirmation; Message ▸ Undo (Ctrl+Z) returns them to the folders they were swept out of, as described under Undo and redo. It also applies its spam filtering on top of any search.

To take a single message out of Junk, use Mark as Not Junk from the message list's context menu; elsewhere, Mark as Junk puts one in.

The Show Junk mail in original folders as well option in Options ▸ General controls the other side of this: when off, spam is hidden from the normal folder views and only surfaces in Junk; when on, those messages appear both in Junk and in the folder they actually live in.

Apps ¶

The home for the launcher and your installed apps. The Apps row itself acts as the Launcher; beneath it sits an app root per installed app and an app instance folder per running instance. Selecting an app instance opens the app instead of a message list. App folders have their own context menu and include non-deletable system apps.

A link to an e-mail address inside an app opens a new message in the compose window, with the recipients, subject and text the link carries already filled in.

Selecting a folder¶

Click a folder (or move to it with the arrow keys) to make it current. Selecting a folder:

• Loads its messages into the message list.
• Remembers it as the previous folder, so the app can track where you came from.
• Selecting an app instance folder opens that app instead of showing a message list; the Apps row itself acts as the Launcher.

Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+7 jump straight to the prime folders, in the order the tree shows them:

The folder becomes the only selected one, and the keyboard moves to the tree. When the filter is hiding that folder, the filter box closes and every folder comes back.

Unread counts¶

A folder with unread messages carries the count beside its name. How it is drawn depends on your theme: the modern themes show a right-justified pill, the classic themes a plain (N) after the name.

Expanding and collapsing¶

Expand a folder to reveal its subfolders, or collapse it to hide them. A new folder starts out expanded, except Apps, which starts out collapsed. The expanded/collapsed state of each folder is remembered and restored, so the tree reopens the way you left it.

Filtering the folders¶

To find a folder by name, click into the folder tree or the Departments pane and type the beginning of the name: a filter box opens under the account badge and both trees narrow down to the folders whose name starts with what you typed. Finding a Folder covers the filter box, its keys, and searching for a message across folders.

Recursive folders¶

Each folder that has subfolders offers a Recursive toggle in its context menu. When Recursive is on, selecting that folder shows the messages from all of its subfolders as well as its own; when off, only the folder's own messages are shown.

The toggle only appears for folders that actually have subfolders.

Creating, renaming, and organizing folders¶

Right-click a folder (or empty space) to open the context menu. Which menu appears depends on what you click:

The menu key opens the same menus from the keyboard.

New Folder¶

New Folder opens a dialog to name the folder. Chosen from a folder, the new folder is created inside it; chosen from empty space (New Folder top-level), it is created at the account's root.

Folder names are validated:

• They cannot be empty.
• They cannot contain the /, %, \, or : characters.
• They cannot reuse a reserved prime-folder name.

The full path is also checked, so you cannot collide with a prime folder or create a folder that already exists.

Rename Folder¶

Rename Folder prompts for a new name (the same name rules apply).

Move¶

Move a custom folder either through the Move ▸ submenu or by dragging it onto its new parent in the tree.

Dragging messages from the message list onto a folder moves those messages (and any nested replies) into it. Hold Shift while dropping to copy them instead. Drops are refused on Junk, on the Outbox, and on app folders.

Deleting folders and emptying Trash¶

Deleting follows a two-stage, Trash-based model:

1. Delete a folder that is not in Trash → it is moved to Trash after a confirmation. Its layout/state is preserved so it can be restored intact.
2. Delete a folder that is already in Trash → it is permanently deleted after a stronger, "this cannot be undone" confirmation.

After a delete, the view selects the nearest remaining folder (for a single selection), so you always land somewhere. You can select and delete a mix of in-Trash and not-in-Trash folders at once; each is handled by the appropriate rule.

Empty Trash (on the Trash folder's menu) permanently removes everything in Trash after an "this cannot be undone" confirmation.

App folders¶

Folders under Apps have their own context menu:

Deleting an app instance asks for confirmation and removes it permanently.

System apps¶

Three apps are built in and always present. They are system apps, so they cannot be deleted, and they each manage a different scope of your installation:

The App Manager and Mailbox Manager can also be opened directly from the Message menu; the account badge above the folder tree is a shortcut to the Mailbox Manager as well.

Icon reference¶

The prime-folder icons:

Folder	Icon
Inbox
Outbox
Sent
Drafts
Trash
Junk
Apps
Custom folder	/