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With Mew's terminology, a place where messages are deliver is called 'mailbox'. There are three kinds of mailbox: local, POP server, IMAP server, and NNTP server.
A box which contains messages used by Mew is called "folder". The name of a folder is in the format that "proto" is followed by a string, where "proto" is one sign letter. For example, the proto of "+inbox" is "+".
Mew's folders are categorized to two types: "local folder" and "remote folder".
A local folder is a folder which is *original* and is created the computer on which Mew is running. Also, messages stored in the folder are *original*. (So, if you remove them, you cannot revive them.)
The proto of a local folder is "+". We summarize special local folders as follows:
The first local folder to store messages which you fetch from your local mailbox or your POP server. To refile messages, what you do is to move the messages from "+inbox" to other folders.
A local folder where messages, which you have not completed yet, are stored.
A local folder where e-mail messages to be sent are stored. The messages in "+queue" will be eventually sent by SMTP.
A local folder where NetNews message to be sent are stored. The messages in "+postq" will be eventually sent by NNTP.
A remote folder is a COPY whose original is on a server side. A message in a remote folder is a cache which is copied from the server.
Here are a list of available proto of remote folders:
Folders on an IMAP servers. Example: "%inbox"
The folder on a POP server. Example: "$inbox" (Since there is only one folder in a POP server, "$inbox" is the only folder whose name starts with "$".)
Newsgroups of NetNews. Example: "-fj.mail.reader.mew"
If you use several servers, there are multiple sets of remote folders. You can specify several servers by using "case". For more information about the "case", see See section Changing receiving/sending behavior. To specify a remote folder corresponding to a "case", you should write "case:folder". You can omit "case:" if a case is "default".
A combination of "case" and proto organized a world to which a message belongs. A message can move within its world. To make it easy to search received messages afterward, they should be moved to proper folders. To know how to refile received messages, see See section Happy refiling.
You cannot move a message in the "$" world because there is only one folder, "$inbox". You cannot move a message in the "-" world either since messages in the "-" world are not yours.
If you want to move a message from one world to another, you should COPY it. Its destination is restricted to a local folder. This method is described in See section Getting messages.
If you make a list of folders, you can use the completion functionality for folders. To know how to make a list of folders, please refer to See section Updating status.
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