Next: So how about setting
Up: Introduction / Tutorial
Previous: Introduction / Tutorial
  Contents
When you start Mahogany for the first time, it will present you with a rather
lengthy configuration dialog where you can configure all kinds of more or less
useful options. Don't be afraid of it - just make sure that the main points,
notably the settings on the Identity (1.7.2) and Network () page
are correct and ignore the rest for now. The defaults should be suitable for
most situations.
The main window will then show you a tree of folders (1.4.2)
on the left and a view of the currently selected folder (1.4.4)
to the right of it. By default, you will find a small number of folders that
Mahogany sets up for you, usually these are ``INBOX'', ``SentMail'' and
``New Mail''. So, what are they?
- ``SentMail'' is obvious, Mahogany will store copies of messages that you send
in there.
- ``INBOX'' is a little more tricky, it represents the ``system inbox'' for
your system. This depends on your system setup, on Unix, it will most commonly
be the /var/spool/mail or /var/mail entry for you, or wherever
new mail for you gets stored. If you have an existing mbox or INBOX
mailfolder in your home directory, as created by some other mail software, it
will refer to this. Generally, you don't need to worry about it, it will just
be a black-box showing you new mail on the system you are logged in to. If it
should not work, you can just create a folder entry for wherever the mail gets
stored and ignore INBOX.
- ``New Mail'' is just a normal file folder, which is used by Mahogany to store
mail that it collects from other places. By default, Mahogany will attempt to
collect all new mail arriving in INBOX and move it to ``New Mail'',
as it is considered bad practice to leave messages in the system spool area.
Also, if you want to collect mail from more than one location, for example from
your ISP's POP account, Mahogany will move it to ``New Mail''. It's just a
convenient central place to store new messages, so you have them all in one
folder, no matter where they come from. Of course, you can change this, if you
don't like it. Whether Mahogany collects mail from a folder or not, can be set
in the Properties dialog of the folder, accessible via a click with the right
mouse button in the folder tree. If you try this, you will see, that Mahogany
is set up to collect from ``INBOX'', but not from ``SentMail''. Good.
Next: So how about setting
Up: Introduction / Tutorial
Previous: Introduction / Tutorial
  Contents
Charlie &
2001-04-19