About Squirrelmail Folders
Making folders in squirrelmail is an easy way to organize your mail and improve
the performance of your squirrelmail account. By keeping your inbox slim through
folders, your Haverford College email will load faster. You can store up to
2 Gb in your folders. The follwing instructions detail how to:
Create a Folder
1. Click on Folders link at top of page
or the Add Folders link in upper right corner.
2 . Under the Create Folder section, in the text box write
in the name of your new folder. If you want it to be a subfolder
of an existing folder, select the existing folder from a drop down list (ex:
you want a folder for “Angela” inside your “Friends”
folder, so make sure to select “Friends” from the down list next
to the create button when you create the “Angela” folder.
3 . Click the Create folder button
4 . In your list of folders in the left side column, click on the
refresh folders list link. Your new folder should
appear.
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Rename a Folder
1. Click on Folders link at top of page
or the Add Folders link in upper right corner.
2 . Under the Rename a Folder section, select
the folder that you wish to rename from the drop down list.
3 . Click the Rename button.
4 . You will then be prompted for a new name for the selected folder.
5 . Click the Submit button to rename the folder.
6 . In your list of folders in the left side column, click on the
refresh folders list link. Your renamed folder should
appear.
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Delete a Folder
1. Click
on Folders link at top of page or
the Add Folders link in upper right corner.
2 . Under the Delete Folder section, select the folder
that you wish to delete from the drop down list.
3 . Click the Delete button
4 . You will be asked to confirm that you wish to delete the folder. Click
on the Yes button to complete folder deletion.
5 . In your list of folders in the left side column, click on the
refresh folders list link. Your folder should disappear.
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Subscribe/Unsubscribe
This is an advanced feature, rarely used on Haverford's campus. For more
information on this service, please read the follwing which is provided by
Squirrelmail Help page:
6.5 - Unsubscribe and Subscribe
Definitions:
Subscribe: To register a folder with the mail server, allowing you to
view it in the folder listings.
Unsubscribe: The opposite of subscribing. This unregisters a folder with the
mail server.
You may choose as many folders as you wish from either the subscribe or
the unsubscribe box, then click the button under the box to make the action
take effect. You will notice that the folders move to the other box. You can
then re-subscribe to them, or unsubscribe again as you wish.