What is the difference between a mailbox and a mail folder?
Each mailbox is associated with a specific email account. You can read your email on any (POP) mail server which you are registered with using the Business Collaborator email tool. All you have to do is set up a new mailbox for each email account you have – e.g. your work account or a home email account such as a Yahoo account. Simply tell the email client where to check for your mail and tell it the username and passwords you use for each of these mail accounts. Then, next time you click on “Get New Mail”, the email tool will show you all the mail you have received recently to the relevant account. (“Get New Mail” will appear in the View/Change menu of a Mailbox.) A mail folder is simply a way of dividing up a mailbox into manageable pieces – it is equivalent to dividing a workspace into folders. • I know I have received mail recently, why can I not see it? Remember to click on “Get New Mail”. The email tool will not automatically try to obtain your mail from the email server, in the