## Help for mailboxes screen

The mailboxes screen looks something like this:

## Mailboxes

Directory Filter

| Parent directory
| INBOX
| old-messages |  |
| saved-messages |  |
| sent-mail |  |

Create
with name

- Click on a mailbox (indicated with the icon ) to make it your current mailbox. It will be opened and its messages listed. Incoming mail is always delivered to the special mailbox called "INBOX" (which cannot be deleted or renamed).
- Click on a subdirectory (indicated with the icon ) to open that subdirectory and see any mailboxes and subdirectories within.
- To rename a mailbox or subdirectory (including the possibility of moving it elsewhere in the hierarchy) click the rename button next to it. If you want to leave it in the same directory, type the desired new name into the "New name" field which will have appeared and then press the "Rename" button. (You can instead press the "Cancel" button to abort the rename sequence.) If you want to rename the mailbox or subdirectory into a different directory, then click directory names until you find the desired directory and then type in the new name.
- To create a new mailbox or subdirectory, choose "Create mailbox" or "Create directory" as appropriate from the menu. Then type the desired name into the "with name" field and press the "Create" button. Mailbox and directory names may contain any character except "/". The IMAP server will place some restriction on the length of the name and of the whole path but those limits will allow any reasonable length (e.g. hundreds of characters, not tens).
- You can also enter the full pathname of a directory explicitly in the "Directory" field and click on the "Open" button to take you directly to a given directory. Separate elements of the path with the "/" character. For example, `private/foosoc/old`. If you also fill in the "Filter" field, then clicking Open opens the directory but only shows those mailboxes and subdirectories whose name matches the given filter pattern. You can use "*" to match any sequence of zero or more characaters and "?" to match any single character. For example, "*new*" will only show mailboxes and subdirectories of the given directory which contain the characters "new" in their names.
- To delete a mailbox or directory, click on the button next to its name. There will be no confirmation request. Deleting a mailbox will delete all its contents which cannot then be recovered. Deleting a subdirectory is only possible if it is empty (i.e. contains no mailboxes or further subdirectories).