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Properties
Provides information about the number of total and unread messages in a folder.
If you want to copy a remote folder to your local system for offline operation, check
Index message body data.
You can also rearrange folders and messages by dragging and dropping them.
If an e-mail folder contains unread messages, the folder label is displayed in bold text,
along with the number of unread messages in the folder.
4.2.3 E-Mail
Evolution e-mail is like other e-mail programs in several ways:
• It can send and receive e-mail in HTML or as plain text, and makes it easy to send
and receive multiple file attachments.
• It supports multiple e-mail sources, including IMAP, POP3, and local mbox or mh
spools and files created by other e-mail programs.
• It can sort and organize your e-mail in a wide variety of ways with folders,
searches, and filters.
• It lets you guard your privacy with encryption.
However, Evolution has some important differences from other e-mail programs. First,
it is built to handle very large amounts of e-mail. The spam e-mail, message filtering
and searching functions were built for speed and efficiency. There's also the search
folder, an advanced organizational feature not found in some e-mail clients. If you get
a lot of e-mail, or if you keep every message you get in case you need to refer to it later,
you'll find this feature especially useful. Here's a quick explanation of what's happening
in your main Evolution e-mail window.
The Evolution e-mail window has two main parts, the message list and the preview
pane. The message list displays all the e-mails that you have. This includes all your
read and unread messages, and e-mail that is flagged to be deleted. In the preview pane,
the contents of the e-mail selected from the list is displayed.
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