Organize Your E-mail Using GoBigWests Webmail Folders
In a recent post, we described configuring mail filters in webmail and organizing e-mail using custom folders in your GoBigWest webmail interface located online at http://mail.gobigwest.com. This week we want to point out a couple of additional tricks that you can use with your webmail folders.
Trick 1: Automatically direct mail into one of your webmail folders without using any filters.
You can direct e-mail automatically to a folder other than your Inbox by modifying your e-mail address. For instance, if your e-mail address is johndoe@gobigwest.com, simply place a hyphen (-) after the username and the name of the folder in which you’d like the mail to be placed. It would follow this format:
johndoe-foldername@gobigwest.com
As an example, let’s say you purchase something from Amazon.com. You will have to provide them with an e-mail address they can use to contact you. If your e-mail address is johndoe@gobigwest.com, then you can make sure that whatever mail they send you goes directly into a folder labeled Amazon by using the address johndoe-amazon@gobigwest.com when you fill out their form. When Amazon sends an e-mail to your address, it will be placed in a folder labeled Amazon. If you do not already have a folder named Amazon in webmail, one will be created automatically. You can test this trick by sending yourself an e-mail using youremailaddress-foldername@gobigwest.com.
Trick 2: Get mail from your webmail folders using your mail program.
Normally, e-mail programs only download messages from your Inbox and not other folders. Suppose that you created the folder as described in Trick 1 and now have a handful of messages in the folder labeled Amazon that you would like to download to your computer. You can download the messages by configuring a new account in your mail program using your username followed by a hyphen (-) and the name of the folder. Going back to the example above, this would mean that the username in the new configuration would be johndoe-Amazon instead of just johndoe. You’ve now configured two accounts in your e-mail program accessing different folders in the same webmail account, one with the username of johndoe and the other with the username of johndoe-Amazon.
Instructions to set up filters or folders in the GoBigWest webmail interface as well as instructions to configure your mail program can be found by browsing to the help section of the homepage and clicking on the setup and then e-mail links.
