on 2013-01-09 15:06 Bob W wrote
Well not to put to fine a point on it, but it seems to me there should
be universal terms for something as simple as the list of emails in
your inbox -
It's called your inbox!
that could be a very ambiguous term if trying to describe a technical problem!
Ann, since you invite exploration of details, Thunderbird calls the window you
describe the Messages & Newsgroups window, but this name is by no means
consistent among email apps (e.g. it is Message Viewer in Apple Mail, and Main
Window in Mailplane); the display is a list of messages in your Inbox by
default, but it can display other mailboxes, and also Usenet newsgroups or RSS
feeds
the term Inbox (often all caps) has multiple meanings; in IMAP it is the
default mailbox on the IMAP server for incoming mail; Inbox is also usually the
parent "folder" when one has several IMAP mailboxes, and there may be both an
INBOX and an Inbox beneath it; the names of the IMAP mailboxes on the server
are generally mirrored on your computer
some email clients (e.g. Apple Mail) can show Inbox as a consolidation of the
Inbox mailboxes of multiple accounts; in Gmail, there are no mailboxes, and
Inbox is just the default label; if you use POP, the term Inbox is not
meaningful on the server, but many POP email clients use the name Inbox as the
default mailbox for incoming messages
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