# Favourites

The Favourites screen allows you to define a list of favourite mail folders. This list appears in the pull-down listing in the common toolbar, replacing the list of default folders. Once you have one or more Favourite mail folders an expanded set of actions becomes available on the Message List screen.

The first time you access this screen it will show you a listing of your mail folders, something like the following:-

## Favourite mail folders

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Directory Filter

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|  |  |  |  | mailing-listA | Add to Favourites |  |  | received | Add to Favourites |  |  | saved-messages | Add to Favourites |  |  | sent-mail | Add to Favourites |  |  | test-folder | Add to Favourites |  |  | testdir |  |

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| Cancel | | | Refresh

The layout of the screen is similar to that in the main Mail Folders screen.

The top and bottom bars have common elements at the right hand side:-

Cancel | returns you to the main Mail Folder screen, and no actions are taken.
Refresh | checks the contents of the directory on the server.

## Selecting favourites

The Folder icon indicates that the line refers to a mail folder, and also shows the name of the folder and actions that can be performed on that folder. To make a folder a favourite simply use the Add to Favourites button by the chosen folder.

## Moving round folders

- The form

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  Directory Filter

  allows you to select a subset of your mail folders.
  - The Directory field shows the name of the current directory (default `mail`). Entering the name of another directory and then selecting Apply will display the contents of that directory. You can type `mail` in here at any time to return to the default mail folders list.
  - The Filter field allows the selection of mail folders by name. For example typing `sent` into the Filter field will, once the Apply button is selected, cause the display to change to show only mail folders with `sent` in their name.
- Arrows indicate that the line refers to a directory. Selecting an arrow will display a listing of the mail folders in that directory.

## Using favourites

Once you have selected one or more folders to Add to Favourites the status line is updated, for example

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Status: Added mail/test-folder to favourites list

and the mail folder listing changes and will look something like the following:-

## Favourite mail folders

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Directory Filter

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| INBOX | Make Preferred |
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Favourite mail folders:

mail/mailing-listA

Remove from Favourites

Make Preferred

mail/test-folder

Remove from Favourites

Make Preferred

Folder list:

mailing-listA

Add to Favourites

received

Add to Favourites

saved-messages

Add to Favourites

sent-mail

Add to Favourites

test-folder

Add to Favourites

testdir

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| Cancel | | | Refresh

The Make Preferred option allows you to select one mail folder as a dominant favourite. Once you have selected this, the listing for that folder changes, for example selecting the mail/test-folder mail folder changes that line to:-

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| mail/test-folder | Remove from Favourites | Current Preferred

If you subsequently wish to change your Preferred folder, simply select a different folder to Make Preferred.

Having a Preferred folder means that that becomes the default folder listed in the pull-down listing in the common toolbar.