If you receive a lot of emails, you will probably soon find that your
Inbox folder is growing to the point where you have a hard time finding
an email again, even if you received it just a few days ago. This is why
- Sylpheed-Claws, like most good mail clients, provides you with multiple
+ Claws Mail, like most good mail clients, provides you with multiple
possibilities in organising your mails.
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</section>
+ <section id="imap_subscriptions">
+ <title>IMAP subscriptions</title>
+ <para>
+ The IMAP protocol allows one to store a list of subscribed folders. Most
+ mail user agents hide the unsubscribed folders away from the GUI, and have
+ a little window allowing to subscribe to these unsubscribed folders. In
+ Claws Mail, subscriptions are respected by default, and only subscribed
+ folders will be displayed. If you want to see all your folders, you can just
+ uncheck <quote>Show subscribed folders only</quote> in the IMAP mailbox'
+ contextual menu or the account preferences. You'll be able to subscribe and
+ unsubscribe folders from this contextual menu too. If the unsubscribed
+ folders are hidden from the list, you will have two ways to subscribe to
+ a folder: either show all folders, subscribe the ones you want, and hide
+ unsubscribed folders again; or, if you know the folder's name, use
+ <quote>Create new folder</quote> in its parent's contextual menu.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
<section id="handling_filters">
<title>Filtering</title>
<para>
Once you have a nice folder hierarchy in place, you'll probably want
- Sylpheed-Claws to sort your incoming emails automatically, in order to
+ Claws Mail to sort your incoming emails automatically, in order to
avoid having to move messages manually each time they arrive. For this
you can use the Filtering feature.
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<quote>All</quote>, which means that the rule is global and will
be applied to all mail, reagrdless of the account from which it was
retireved, (see paragraph below). The condition format is an expression
- defining what Sylpheed-Claws should look for when filtering mail, for
- example: <quote>to matchcase sylpheed-claws-users</quote> is for messages
- sent to any address containing <quote>sylpheed-claws-users</quote>. You can
+ defining what Claws Mail should look for when filtering mail, for
+ example: <quote>to matchcase claws-mail-users</quote> is for messages
+ sent to any address containing <quote>claws-mail-users</quote>. You can
easily define conditions by clicking the <quote>Define...</quote> button
at the right of the field. The last part of a filtering rule is the
- action, which instructs Sylpheed-Claws what to do with mail matching
+ action, which instructs Claws Mail what to do with mail matching
the condition we just defined. For example, <quote>mark_as_read</quote>
marks the mail as read as soon as it arrives in your inbox, or
<quote>move #mh/Mailbox/inbox/Friends</quote> moves the mail to your
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Once you have defined the rule, you can add it to the list of rules with
the <quote>Add</quote> button. Don't forget that the order of the rules
- is important: if Sylpheed-Claws finds a rule suitable for an email that
+ is important: if Claws Mail finds a rule suitable for an email that
either moves or deletes the email, it will stop looking for further
rules for that email. This is why, at the right of the rules list, you
will find four buttons allowing the re-ordering of rules. The rules can
<quote>Find all</quote> to select all the matching emails at once. Be
aware that searching for text in the body of emails is much slower than
searching in its headers, because the body of emails isn't cached by
- Sylpheed-Claws. <quote>Extended Search</quote> mode can be turned on by
+ Claws Mail. <quote>Extended Search</quote> mode can be turned on by
clicking the relevant checkbox, thus allowing you to use match expressions
like those used in <quote>Filtering</quote> rules.
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The final way of searching for emails is using <quote>Quick Search</quote>,
which you can display or hide by cilicking the little magnifying glass icon
under the Message List. It is also accessible from the <quote>Quick Search</quote>
- item of the <quote>Edit</quote> menu. <quote>Quick Search</quote> is more
+ item of the <quote>Edit</quote> menu. <quote>Quick Search</quote> is more
powerful than the normal search as it can search in standard headers (From,
To, Subject) or in <quote>Extended</quote> mode using just about any
criteria you can think of. When in <quote>Extended</quote> mode, the
search syntax. An <quote>Edit</quote> button is also available which
allows you to quickly create a rule. You can also configure
<quote>Quick Search</quote> to search recursively through subfolders,
- and whether it should reset itself when you change folders.
+ whether it should reset itself when you change folders, and whether to
+ use Type-ahead search (this is a search which results update dynamically
+ if you pause in the typing).
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<para>
When you hit Enter after having specified the search string, the Message
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