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Anatomy of a Mailbox Window

Mailbox windows are one of the most important elements of Eudora.

Each line in a mailbox window represents one message and is called a message summary. To select a message summary, single-click on it. There are several ways to select more than one summary. You can select a summary and drag through the ones you want to select. You can select one summary, hold down the shift key, and select another summary to select both summaries and all the summaries between them. Finally, you can hold down the [command]/CTRL key and select individual summaries. This allows you to make "disjoint" selections.

Mailbox Window Columns

A mailbox window (and hence each message summary) is divided into five columns: Status/Priority, Sender/Recipient, Date, Size, and Subject.

The Status/Priority column displays two separate items. The first is the message status, which is one of the following:


	o	The message has not been read (all mailboxes except Out), 

		or is queueable but has not been queued (Out mailbox only).

	"blank"	The message has been read (all mailboxes except 

		Out), or is not yet able to be queued because it has no 

		recipients (Out mailbox only).

	R	Reply has been chosen for the message.

	F	Forward has been chosen for the message.

	D	Redirect has been chosen for the message.

	S	The message has been sent (outgoing messages only).

	-	The message was transferred from the Out mailbox before 

	being sent.

The message priority is displayed as follows:


	Highest priority

	High priority

	Normal

	Low priority 

	Lowest priority

For more information on message priorities, see the "Message Priorities" section.

The Sender/Recipient column shows the sender of the message (for incoming messages) or the recipient or intended recipient (for outgoing messages).

Note: Bugs in some POP servers/mail transport systems may result in Eudora displaying the sender of incoming messages as ???@???. This is because the required From: header is missing.

The Date column displays the date and time the message was sent, or, for timed messages, the date and time the message is scheduled to be sent.

Note: The date is formatted according to the short date format in current use by your Machine, and the time is formatted according to the current time format.

The Size column displays the size of the message, in K (K = 1024 bytes).

The Subject column displays the subject of the message. This information was typed into the message header by the sender.

Resizing Columns Under Macintosh Systems

You can resize any column in a mailbox window. Move the mouse pointer until it is over the dotted column divider to the right of the column you want to resize. The pointer turns into the column resize cursor.

Simply press the mouse button, drag the divider to the position you desire, and release the mouse button. The column divider moves to the new location, and the mailbox is redrawn.

You can only shrink a column as far as its left divider. If you do so, a double divider line is displayed in place of the column, and its contents are hidden. To redisplay the column, drag the right divider line to the right.

Mailbox Size Display

The corner of each mailbox window displays size information for that mailbox. Three numbers are displayed. The first is the number of messages in the mailbox; the second is the total amount of space those messages require; and the third is the amount of disk space that is wasted in the mailbox. Eudora occasionally recovers this wasted space on its own. To force Eudora to recover this space from all mailboxes, select Compact Mailboxes from the Special menu. To compact an individual mailbox, hold down the [command]/CTRL key and single-click on the mailbox size display.

Last modified: 4/09/97