E-Mail

Organizing E-Mails

5.5.18. Using Unified Mail

With Unified Mail you can display E-Mails from multiple E-Mail accounts in one central folder. This gives you a quick overview of the multiple E-Mail accounts' inboxes. Unified Mail can be described as follows:

  • In addition to an E-Mail account's Inbox the Unified Mail folder displays a further E-Mail view for an account. The E-Mails actually exist only once.

  • E-Mails in the Inbox's subfolders are not displayed in the Unified Mail folder.

  • The E-Mails in the Unified Mail folder are marked with a label in the sidebar. It contains the E-Mail account's name. The internal E-Mail account is marked with the label Primary account.

The following functions are available:

  • To use Unified Mail enable the function for one or several E-Mail accounts.

  • You can display E-Mails in the Unified Mail folder.

How to activate Unified Mail for an E-Mail account:

  1. Click the Settings icon on the right side of the menu bar. Click the Settings menu item.

  2. In the sidebar, click on Accounts.

  3. Click on Edit next to an external E-Mail account in the display area. The settings are displayed in a pop-up.

  4. Enable Use Unified Mail for this account.

    Click on Save at the bottom of the pop-up.

How to display E-Mails in theUnified Mail folder:

  1. Open the Unified Mail folder in the folder tree.

  2. As an alternative, click on a subfolder of the Unified Mail folder.

Tip: The account is indicated with a label next to an E-Mail's subject in the sidebar.

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