Have you ever wanted to finally bring some organization to your mailbox on First Class? Take a look the next time that you open your mailbox. If you have 300 files sitting in your mailbox, you're probably a candidate for a good weeding or, at the bare minimum, a way to organize your messages so that you can track things down.
I use the fact that First Class lets me have folders in my mailbox to organize important incoming and outgoing messages depending on who or what the topic/project is. Setup is easy. If you don't have the open area visible in your mailbox, you'll have to move your cursor to the dark dividing line and hold down the left mouse button as you drag the dividing line down to create an area for your folders. Now, point into the newly opened area and press your right mouse button and select "New Folder" from the list and there you go! To rename it, click once on the name and give it a new name and First Class will keep that folder online for you.
Once you've read the messages
in your mailbox and elected to keep them rather than deleting them, just
point and drag the message from your mailbox to the appropriate folder
and you've begun the process of organizing your messages. Now when
you open your mailbox, only the actual mail messages are loaded.
Only when you open one of these new folders will those messages be loaded
from the server. A word of warning however. Messages do have
a life span and filing them into a folder isn't a safeguard against the
aging process. If you need to archive messages permanently, consider
printing them or saving them to a text file.
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