Step 1: Add Another Mailbox

Now and then, look through your mailboxes and decide which messages to keep. This is also a good time to reorganize the mailboxes themselves. Suppose someone in your family (Richard) sends you a lot of emails that you'd like to save. You can add a mailbox named Richard just as you did for the Newsletters box. See the tutorial, "Add a mailbox."

Step 2: Add a Folder

With a keen eye on organization, you notice that two of these mailboxes, Newsletters and Richard, both hold messages from family members. Eudora provides a way to organize these into a folder. Select Mailbox / New again, but this time check the "make it a folder" box on the add screen. We'll call the new mailbox folder "Family."

Step 3: No New Mailbox

Click OK to confirm the addition of the Family folder, and you'll be offered a chance to put a mailbox into the new folder. At the same time, you can see the new folder appear in the explorer bar on the left side of the screen. Since we already have the two mailboxes for the Family folder, just click Cancel or press the <Esc> key to dismiss the "New Mailbox" window.

Step 4: Move Mailboxes into Folder

In the explorer bar (left side of the screen), drag the Newsletters mailbox into the Family folder, and then do the same with the Richard mailbox. Now that your family messages are organized into a single folder, you can focus on organizing your other messages. If you accidentally drag a mailbox into a folder, you can just drag it back to the top level of Eudora.

Step 5: Double Click to Move

Notice that in the example, the mailbox that's selected in the explorer bar is Richard, but Newsletters is indicated at the top of the main window. And the mail messages listed in the message list are the Newsletters messages also. This happens because it takes a double click to move to a different mailbox. If you only single-click a mailbox, it is selected in the explorer bar, but it doesn't give you the message list.