About Overcome Email Overload with Eudora 5
About Overcome Email Overload with Microsoft Outlook 2000
Other email material by Kaitlin Duck Sherwood: A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email Why I Don't Like Electronic Greeting Cards Humorous looks at email: The Dark Side of Web Publishing Hyphenate or not -- Email or E-mail?
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Appendix B: Mailboxes and LabelsExcerpted from Overcome Email Overload with Eudora 5Copyright © 2001 Kaitlin Duck Sherwood Wouldn't it be easier to read this on paper? Buy this book now! This appendix explains how to do a few things that are pretty simple, but that you might not have seen. It explains how to create collections of messages (mailboxes) and collections of collections (folders) and how to configure labels. MailboxesMailboxes are collections of messages. Your inbox is one example of a mailbox. Mailboxes are very useful for organizing and prioritizing your messages. To create a mailbox, select Mailbox -> New... and a window like one in Figure 39 will appear: FoldersYou can also group mailboxes together in folders. To create a new folder with menus, select Mailbox -> New... as above. To make a folder, put a checkmark in the box labeled Make this a folder and type in the name you want the folder to have. LabelsWith Eudora, you can categorize a message by giving it what Eudora calls a label. Labels let you attach a category, a color, and even a priority to a message. To configure labels, select Special -> Settings... -> Labels (Mac OS) or Tools -> Options... -> Labels (Windows). You can change the color and name of labels, as shown in Figure 40 and Figure 41: Figure 40: Eudora Labels (Windows)To change the color, click on one of the boxes on the left. To change the name of the label, enter the new name on the right. If you are using Windows, you can use seven labels. Eudora for Mac OS has eight Eudora labels, but you can also use the seven operating system labels for a total of fifteen. Figure 41: Eudora labels settings (Mac OS)To edit the system labels with Mac OS 9, go to the Finder and select Edit -> Preferences... -> Labels . You can use colors to give you clues to a message's priority. Bright red, green, and blue all stand out very well on computer monitors, so you should use those colors for important messages. You should use pale colors or ones that don't have a clear contrast with the white background (like yellow or grey) for low-priority messages. When looking at a mailbox, the text of the entry for a message is the color of its label. This makes it very easy to tell what category a message belongs to. For example, if the Charlie label is red, then the first two lines in the mailbox shown in Figure 42 will be red: Summary
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