On 1/9/2013 19:49, steve harley wrote:
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
It may not be interesting to some but yes,it is interesting to me.. and
I welcome all those details. I am, btw, using POP .
what I see when I open Thunderbird is a side bar that show my address
and under that the INBOX and under it a variety of sub message folders
I set up one of which is PDML.
I love the way it works, I must say - threading and sorting and
searching all work wonderfully well and is my filing system for
all sorts of things.
ann
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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