Using Webmail folders

On this page: Storage capacity | Viewing folder contents | Creating or deleting a folder | Renaming folders | Filing a message in a folder | Sorting messages

You use your Webmail folders to group and store your email messages. For example, you can create a folder to contain all messages regarding a particular project. Your mailbox also has some special folders:

Inbox - new messages are placed when they arrive and unfiled messages are also stored here
Trash - messages you have deleted are placed here and removed from the system when you log out of ourbrisbane.com
Sent-mail - contains copies of messages you have sent

Storage capacity

You can store 20MB of information in your ourbrisbane.com mailbox. The amount of space you have used is indicated by the Quota bar on the left side of the Webmail window, above your folder list.

Viewing folder contents

A list of your available folders is seen on the left side of the Webmail window. Clicking on any folder will show you the contents of that folder.

Creating or deleting a folder

You can create or delete a folder at any time. To create a folder:

click on the File menu at the top of the window
click on the New icon
select new and then folder from the options
type the name of the new folder into the popup window
click on OK.

The new folder can now be selected from the Folders list.

To delete a folder

right click on the Folder you want to delete
select Delete from the menu options shown
if you are sure you want to delete the folder, click on the OK button in the confirmation window
click on OK in the second confirmation window. The folder will be deleted

Note: When you delete a folder, all messages in the folder are deleted too.

Renaming folders

To rename an existing folder:

right click on the folder you want to rename
select Rename from the menu options
type the new name into the popup box and click on the OK button

Filing a message in a folder

You can file messages one at a time or select multiple messages to transfer to a folder.

Filing individual messages

click on the message you want to move.
drag the message to the folder you want to put it into

To file multiple messages in a folder

You can use this procedure to move messages from one folder to another.

open the folder containing the messages to be filed (for more detail see Viewing folder contents )
click the checkbox beside the messages you want to move
using the drop-down menu that says Move to folder, select the folder you want to move the message to
the messages you selected will be moved to the selected folder
hold down the Ctrl (Control) key on your keyboard
click on each of the messages you want to move to a particular folder while still holding down the Ctrl key
drag the message to the folder you want to put them into

Sorting messages

Within each folder, messages appear in the order in which you received or sent them. You can change this order by selecting the column headings. For example, if you want to sort your messages by subject, click the Subject column heading.

on the Message Folder screen click the Column you want to sort by. Webmail will immediately sort your messages in the selected order
use the scroll bars at the side of the window to scroll up and down your list of messages

Using Webmail folders

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